Il lun 30 ago 2021, 07:11 Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> ha scritto:

> Paolo, why did your patch get stalled?


It just wasn't worthwhile at the time given how few meson options were
there. I missed 6.1 and was going to send it out again for 6.2.

The reason for using Perl was because there's no guarantee of knowing the
path to the Python interpreter until after --python is parsed, so there
would be a risk of not being able to give a full help. I don't like Perl
very much, but the difference in obscurity between Perl and Eric-level sh
is small. :)

Paolo

... my way of parsing is certainly
> way more fragile, but it's less complicated and seems to work as long as
> all
> the options are written in the same way in meson_options.txt (e.g. as long
> as nobody tries to use multi-line descriptions of the options there
> etc.)...
> so maybe if the additional Perl script was too much, this could be a good
> compromise?
>
>   Thomas
>
>

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