Profanity: Meson Build

[PMaynard]

Hello,

Is this interest in replacing the current build system with meson [1]?

There are a number of advantages, the first being it supports reproducible builds. (Currently not sure if profanity is, anyone know?) It will ease cross-compiling, and has multi-platform support.

Any thoughts?

[1] http://mesonbuild.com/

[Redfoxymoon]

Reproducible builds have nothing to do with what build system you use, autotools is perfectly fine for that. IMO meson also makes cross compilation far worse.

[pasis]

Build system is a tool for developers. And they should use a tool they are familiar with. Because project can't rely on external contributions on every change that should be reflected to build scripts.

Also changing the build system has negative impact: modern build systems don't exist on exotic OSes/environments; many external projects rely on current build scripts and can't be changed in short term.

Also as topic related suggestion, don't add multiple build systems to the project.

[jubalh]

Totally agreed.

Meson has nothing to do with reproducible builds.
Maybe checking out https://reproducible-builds.org/ and seeing which packages in Debian (for example) are reproducible, only a fraction of those uses meson.