On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:56 PM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > Josh de Kock (2018-06-14): > > As such, I'd like to propose adopting a new build system to FFmpeg, namely > > Meson[1]. > > I am very strongly against this. > > I loathe make and all it has to do with it, but really, for a project > like this, it is the only viable option. The principles of make are > already known by almost all potential Libre software developers, those > in the project and those not yet. > > Make is also a very mature system, with many interoperable > implementations; and although FFmpeg relies on a lot of extensions that > are specific to GNU make, these extensions themselves are very mature > and I think implemented in a few other versions. It is completely > different from using a very young project that has only a single > implementation and that still evolves so much that you did not manage to > use a released version. > >
I don't mind make itself, for me its configure thats the real problem. Its extremely slow (we're talking minutes), for me often taking longer then the actual compilation (especially with ccache) - and that is really extremely painful. configure is also whats causing all those headaches, not make. - Hendrik _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel