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
>
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
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