Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?

[Ladislav Michl]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:
> > Imho the only useful alternative is cmake. Or meson, if you really think so.
> 
> Both two-phase systems.  Why do people keep building these things?
> It's a bad idea that never gets better noo matter how often it's
> repeated.

First phase is discovering build environment. So unless you found a way
how to do this very quickly, people will keep building those two-phase
systems, just to save time spent waiting for recompile.

        ladis