Re: meson or generic ninja support?

On Sunday, 6 August 2017 08:45:06 CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Saturday August 05 2017 01:18:20 Aleix Pol wrote:
> >Of course not. You should start a meson plugin, not refactor the cmake one.
> 
> Frankly, I don't know (and don't have much incentive to find out) what's
> better/easier, strip the unneeded parts from the cmake plugin or start
> something completely from scratch.

The compile_command.json parser should be factored out. The file format is 
build system agnostic. A couple of different build systems actually support 
generating these files (CMake, QBS, <a couple of hand-written scripts>, ...).

For the rest, you'd still need a new plugin for Meson though.

Regards,
Kevin
 
> I've seen only 1 aspect for now where meson is very different from both
> configure and cmake: you cannot reinvoke it in an already configured build
> tree. Instead, you have to use the mesonconf executable, which doesn't have
> exactly the same calling signature.


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