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

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 2/6/20 12:19 AM, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> 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.

Exactly. Scons is wasting a lot of time by doing that again and again.

When I'm debugging ceph on mipsel I'd have to wait half an hour to see
if my changes build. Thats just useless.


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