Eli Schwartz

Yeah I noticed that PR too. The status seems to be best described as "confusing". (I don't get it. It's end of life, and anyone using end of life pythons...

https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/ce1e8f18559ea710fb31c0eff40dde5d2f59612b/meson.build#L37 This assumes that the sqlite3 library is available by default to the compiler. It might be better to use `dependency('sqlite3')` and assume that a suitable version is available via...

SciPy wrote a blog post about moving to Meson: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2021/07/moving-scipy-to-meson/ It has some useful links and discussion (note that a year later and with various collaboration between SciPy Meson, not...

(Many would argue that the large number of third-party books for cmake exist because the official cmake docs are lacking. Particularly with the focus on describing "modern" cmake, whereas Meson...

One of the big differences that people usually point out between meson and cmake is that cmake allows third-party modules, and user defined functions. Meson doesn't (avoiding Turing completeness and...

Those are some interesting numbers... What's the value of nproc on that system? Was setup.py cleaned before doing the build?

Now cmake is the one that shot down to 3.5 minutes of user time... weird.

For reasons I don't understand, curl generally hardcodes a bunch of -l flags instead of using pkg-config dependencies. Meson is only supposed to look for those in the compiler directories...

> There are platforms our stuff builds on that don't have C++11, which CMake requires to build, last I checked. It's really a pain in the nether regions, but that's...

https://www.openssl.org/policies/platformpolicy.html OpenVMS, I presume, given that Linux is the primary development platform, but for secondary core development platforms, FreeBSD, Windows, and MacOS X share that distinction with VMS. ... I've...