Wayland Adds Meson Build System Support

[caligula]

Python is already a near defacto requirement on a modern desktop Linux system since a number of tools and utilities depend on it. No distribution ships a desktop installation without Python already included as part of the base install.

Adding 4mb to an already large base install hardly counts as bloat.

Sure, if you're using a desktop PC, but you might also want to use a headless CI/CD build server.

[Sonadow]

To be fair, Ninja depends on Python which provides a non-trivial amount of runtime code. For example, on Arch Linux Python3 package is 152 MB in size.

Python is already a near defacto requirement on a modern desktop Linux system since a number of tools and utilities depend on it. No distribution ships a desktop installation without Python already included as part of the base install.

Adding 4mb to an already large base install hardly counts as bloat.

[caligula]

And to top it off, Ninja is only a 4mb binary.

Any build machine which cannot afford to spare that 4mb does not't deserve to be called a build machine. Even budget x64 computers have more than enough storage to house that measly 4mb for Ninja.

To be fair, Ninja depends on Python which provides a non-trivial amount of runtime code. For example, on Arch Linux Python3 package is 152 MB in size.

[boxie]

And to top it off, Ninja is only a 4mb binary.

Any build machine which cannot afford to spare that 4mb does not't deserve to be called a build machine. Even budget x64 computers have more than enough storage to house that measly 4mb for Ninja.

oh man, you gotta watch what you're saying - that's how the bloat gets in! 4MB, why, in my day that was an entire operating system - AND WE LIKED IT :P

(p.s. that was all sarcasm, in case any of it came across serious)

[Sonadow]

but the "bloated trash" is faster than autotools, and surely that's not a bloated mess...

And to top it off, Ninja is only a 4mb binary.

Any build machine which cannot afford to spare that 4mb does not't deserve to be called a build machine. Even budget x64 computers have more than enough storage to house that measly 4mb for Ninja.

[boxie]

no, it's not. relying on bloated trash like python and ninja is no good.

but the "bloated trash" is faster than autotools, and surely that's not a bloated mess...

[boxie]

So what would be a better option then?

inb4 this user suggests the custom set of bash scripts they have developed

[caligula]

no, it's not. relying on bloated trash like python and ninja is no good.

So what would be a better option then?

[Redfoxmoon]

Makes a lot of sense. Meson is the only sane option.

no, it's not. relying on bloated trash like python and ninja is no good.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wayland Adds Meson Build System Support

While Wayland's Weston reference compositor has been using the Meson build system for about the past year, only this week did Wayland itself see Meson support introduced...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wayland-Adds-Meson-Build