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Tue, 12 Nov 2024 05:48:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by vm-mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id f45e97ca (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:48:31 +0100 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Eli Schwartz Cc: David Aguilar , Taylor Blau , git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sunshine , Phillip Wood , Junio C Hamano , Ramsay Jones Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/19] Modernize the build system Message-ID: References: <89a2621f-2c30-473b-9a0c-48135244f33a@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <89a2621f-2c30-473b-9a0c-48135244f33a@gentoo.org> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 04:48:14PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 11/11/24 5:36 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 04:58:56AM -0800, David Aguilar wrote: > >> The one thing that no one has mentioned is dependencies. > >> > >> CMake has less dependencies. Python is arguably a liability in the build > >> system arena, and Meson requires it. > > > > Eli has menitoned [muon](https://muon.build/), which is a drop-in > > replacement for Meson written in plain C99. I don't know whether it is > > currently able to compile the Git project, but if this is going to be a > > concern for people I can try to make sure that it does. > > I was wondering whether I should say something, because I don't really > feel the criticism was on-target to begin with. But... > > I am delighted to be able to confirm, that muon works quite well here. > > It did require two small tweaks for not yet implemented features in > muon, that meson had and which this patch series depends on: > > the iconv special dependency, which I provided a patch for: > > https://git.sr.ht/~lattis/muon/commit/75d33f6b6d482344d969e4ad6ce1527353f91cce > > using fallback from gnu99 to c11 for the sake of MSVC, which I reported > and got the muon developer to implement: > > https://git.sr.ht/~lattis/muon/commit/a70e9687f3bfb8b9c21baf9acdfe84f97a42b11f > > > (Note the commit author dates by the way. I had the same general thought > about whether muon could satisfy git users such as, frankly, ones more > interesting to me than "python has too many dependencies". Such as > perhaps HPE NonStop users, and I tried muon out a month ago. Yes -- even > though I am a *meson* maintainer, I consider this a useful alternative > to have. Meson's FAQ includes discussion about whether it makes sense to > require Python, and notes that we specifically avoided providing any > "provide your own python extensions" functionality because it would > prevent being able to ever rewrite in another not-python language. We > also document muon as an alternative in our FAQ.) > > > With these two small changes, muon compiles git successfully, and passes > all tests but one: Thanks, I'll have a look at the test failure. Patrick