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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson?
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To: "Daniel P. =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?=" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, =?utf-8?Q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9?= Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

[...]
> As long term contributors we've built enough enough knowledge to
> QEMU to consider our build system attractive or even "simple",

The words that come to my mind aren't "attractive" or "simple", but
"impressively clever", "brittle", and "uh, can I hack on something else
today?"

I've obviously failed to develop enough of a Stockholm Syndrome in 8+
years.

> which skews our view of the benefits of alternatives to people
> without this tribal knowledge.