Eli Schwartz

Speaking as a maintainer of a general-purpose build system (in this case, Meson), I'd like to interject with a couple thoughts on build systems. ... What is the plan for...

While in my biased opinion I'd definitely recommend meson over cmake... the rationale for sticking with a Makefile seems quite good? It's not an indictment on any particular build system,...

MSBuild at least can just be generated by either Meson or CMake, so it's probably not very important to keep. Also handwritten XML is going to be the hardest thing...

> The meson build system made a change without giving deprecation warnings in version 0.60. This is technically incorrect, no "change" was made. "ERROR: Function does not take positional arguments."...

I don't get this problem, but I do get a different one: ``` $ aurpublish chomsky-font git push using: [email protected]:chomsky-font.git master To aur.archlinux.org:chomsky-font.git ! [rejected] 9f6cf88afbe3391ac38cbf0b96f28b8169d3caba -> master (non-fast-forward) error:...

I don't often update VCS packages -- only when there are upstream changes to the build system. Incidentally, what do you see as overkill about it? Note that it's used...

> A hook that is triggered by git push instead of git commit could solve that, is such a hook possible ? No, the hook prepares a commit message and...

Is this something you're interested in investigating and possibly providing a patch to implement it?

> remove the local git repo and re-clone the upstream repo That sounds kind of awkward if you ask me. ... What kind trouble are we talking about here? If...

If the conflicting commit is the most recent one, you could use `git commit --amend`. You can also use `git rebase` and choose one or more commits to checkout, edit...