Some questions about GIMP's Meson migration
I represent a desktop FOSS application (name withheld to avoid overeager journalists).
We are "cautiously curious" about Meson (we currently use Autotools). To determine if it makes sense for us to migrate to Meson at this point, I thought it would be useful to interview other projects that made the decision to migrate. I really appreciate any effort you are able to spend on answering my questions.
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How did you become convinced it would be worth it to migrate to a different build system?
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Why pick Meson instead of, say, CMake?
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You are currently in the process of migrating to Meson. Has the migration process had a negative impact on the daily development routine?
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For the developers who were familiar with your old build system, how much of an effort has it been to get used to Meson and its build files?
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Are you happy with Meson so far? No disappointments?
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If you were in the same situation as when you started, would you go forward with the transition again? Is there something you would do differently?
Thank you in advance!