Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson

Hi,

On 2022-05-26 11:47:13 +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Thanks for working on this! I'm very enthusiastic about this effort and I was
> glad to see on PGCon Unconference that the majority of the community seems
> to be as well.
> 
> > The halfway decent list includes, I think:
> > 1) cmake
> > 2) bazel
> > 3) meson
> 
> Was SCons considered as an option?
> What pros and cons do you see that make Meson a better choice?

I looked at it and quickly discarded it. From what I could see there's not
been meaningful moves to it in the last couple years, if anything adoption has
been dropping. And I don't think we want to end up relying on yet another half
maintained tool.

Not having a ninja backend etc didn't strike me as great either - the builds
with scons I've done weren't fast at all.

Greetings,

Andres Freund