[Netatalk-devel] Request for opinion: Meson build system

[Daniel M. <da...@mi...>]

A question for you all: How would it affect you if Netatalk moved to the Meson build system?

The primary benefits that we over traditional GNU autotools are:

- It's fast!
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Used by well-established open source projects such as qemu, mesa, freedesktop.org (eg dbus), Gnome, glib

- The meson.build files have a transparent logic and are easy to update
- The dependency search function works really well cross-platform so less user intervention with configure options is required

The main drawback is of course the disruption to package maintainers or sysadmins who like to roll their own binaries.

So before making the final decision, I want to hear the Voice of the Customer, as it were. :)

Here is the ticket in question: https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/707

Cheers,
Daniel