[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Autotools: Really slow on Windows (#2305)

[elextr]

Speaking as someone who uses and likes meson because its a _developer_ build tool, (AT isn't it says so right on its docs, its a distribution tool).  Unfortunately any alternative probably needs a "try it and see" approach to finding if its faster than AT, because its likely to only be a speed improvement for something Geanys size if it runs fewer commands (which it may do for the library stuff).  I don't think, but it needs to be proved, that there will be much speed improvement due to filesystem metadata access that `make` does that `ninja` doesn't for Geany (but its very important for say chromium).

@b4n:
> distribution tarballs

`ninja dist` according to the meson site

As for exotics, well, if they want Geany they can contribute a build system, its all open source.

IIRC somebody did offer to make a meson port in the past, but I can't remember who (and my googling didn't find it either, @codebrainz google services might :).


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