Behind and Under the Scenes of the Meson Build System

Behind and Under the Scenes of the Meson Build System

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Behind and Under the Scenes of the Meson Build System

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  1. 1 Behind (and under) the scenes of the Meson build system
  2. 2 But first
  3. 3 The Meson Manual
  4. 4 Design challenge
  5. 5 Option C
  6. 6 Law of bad solutions
  7. 7 Combining flags
  8. 8 The correct answer is D
  9. 9 The D programming language
  10. 10 It gets better
  11. 11 Extra fun bug stuff
  12. 12 Chat with the project leader
  13. 13 The source of all complexity
  14. 14 Does it handle ...
  15. 15 gnustep-config --debug-flags
  16. 16 Comment from a BSD developer
  17. 17 Backporting fun • Ubuntu LTS releases need e.g. drivers for new graphics cards
  18. 18 Even stricter
  19. 19 More BSD comments
  20. 20 Adopting the new
  21. 21 File objects • Files are often used from a different directory than they are stored in
  22. 22 Bizarrely common
  23. 23 Jussi's Law of Programmers
  24. 24 Corollary
  25. 25 Subproject isolation
  26. 26 So what did people do?
  27. 27 The usability dilemma
  28. 28 Constructive feedback
  29. 29 Things we could use help with
  30. 30 In conclusion

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