Re: [sage-devel] Meson Build System

2023-05-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 10:35 -0700, Volker Weißmann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a developer that worked quite a bit with the meson build system and > looked at sagemath for a few days. I thought that redoing the build > system with meson instead of autoconf would be quite a bit of work, but >

[sage-devel] Re: Meson Build System

2023-05-02 Thread Matthias Koeppe
Hi Volker, I would welcome using Meson (specifically meson-python) for building the Sage *library*, replacing our use of the very dated setuptools. Other scientific packages, notably SciPy have gone this route with great success. That's https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/34630, and I'll be

[sage-devel] Meson Build System

2023-05-02 Thread Volker Weißmann
Hello, I'm a developer that worked quite a bit with the meson build system and looked at sagemath for a few days. I thought that redoing the build system with meson instead of autoconf would be quite a bit of work, but would 1. Be far, far more readable. 2. Result in far faster incremental