On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 07:12:33PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > lately I have been thinking of converting the QEMU build system to > Meson. Meson is a relatively new build system that can replace > Autotools or hand-written Makefiles such as QEMU; as a die-hard > Autotools fan, I must say that Meson is by far better than anything else > that has ever tried to replace Autotools, and actually has the potential > to do so.
Meson is gaining in popularity and I recently got some experience with it. It doesn't feel much worse or better than what QEMU or Linux have for basic tasks. For advanced tasks, I can't say. One frustration is that any time the meson package is upgraded (when your distro pushes an update) it forces a rebuild from scratch :(. I think for 95% of people Meson vs Make will make little difference (the syntax is easy enough) and 5% of people might be able to do more advanced things cleanly with Meson. Sounds good to me. Stefan
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