Daniele Nicolodi

It's documented here https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_returned_runresult.html

I think that a formatter that has the potential to loose the content of the source files is a terrible idea. It would be acceptable if it would misplace the...

Just thinking out loud: will really someone (except maybe Meson, if support for PEP 517 is integrated into Meson itself) really use `meson-python` for a python packages that do not...

@eli-schwartz I may be misunderstanding what you are saying. The point of PEP 517 is to generate Python wheels. The limitations you list are a limitation of the installer of...

Having applications that can be installed in different ways resulting in different capabilities and that integrate differently with the host system seems a support nightmare to me. I'm not convinced...

Yeah, I was not being particularly serious. Although, if that becomes the way meson is build and installed, meson would need to incorporate something like `meson-python` or building a wheel...

As I was trying to express, that requires that meson distributes a pep517 backend like `meson-python`. Doesn't it?

> Yep, that's ultimately the plan. It can't happen before python 3.11 final though. What is in Python 3.11 that will enable merging `meson-python` functionality into meson? I imagine it...

> Actually, it's the new feature of "the tomllib module has been added to the stdlib". :) Of course. I forgot about this. > Of course once we mention toml,...

> This is not necessarily true, `install_subdir()` does exist. :) Would this be used in a way similar to this? ``` py_mod = import('python') py = py_mod.find_installation() install_subdir( 'foo', install_dir:...