On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Michael Forney <mfor...@mforney.org> wrote: > On 7/25/17, Silvan Jegen <s.je...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Michael Forney <mfor...@mforney.org> >>> Even if you don't care for ninja, it does seem to be gaining >>> popularity, and I've noticed several projects start switching from >>> autotools to meson (which outputs ninja), so I thought it would be >>> good to have a small C implementation. It was also a fun project. >> >> I have seen that some of the Wayland projects I care about are working >> on switching to meson but I did not know that it uses ninja under the >> hood. >> >> Since you seem to have plenty of experience with ninja, do you think >> it has any advantages over using a Makefile containing 20-50 lines of >> code? > > No, not at all. Definitely use a Makefile for that case.
That's what I suspected. Not sure it's desirable to ever work on a codebase big enough to require a build system which uses ninja under the hood. If I find myself in such a position I will turn to samurai first. Thanks for the info!