Based on our record, Meson should be more popular than Open Build Service. It has been mentiond 43 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
In Fedora, mock[0] is used to build packages in clean chroot for multiple of distros. In SuSE, Open Build Service[1] I used. [0]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Mock_to_test_package_builds [1]: https://openbuildservice.org. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
I wish more software developers would use Open Build Service and create many packages for many distros: https://openbuildservice.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
OpenSUSE also provides it's own instance of openbuildservice. Source: 11 months ago
I see! So it is like a local https://openbuildservice.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
You can look at Open Build Service (OBS) and you can try it for free in OpenSuse OBS. Source: over 1 year ago
I went to mesonbuild.org and it doesn't match the description (some sort of betting site? I didn't stick around ...), and a search turned up: https://mesonbuild.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Came here to post the same. The answer for How to build software? is Meson[1] for C and C++ and also other languages. Works well on Windows and Mac, too. I’ve written a small Makefile to learn the basic and backgrounds. Make is fine. But the next high-level would have been Autotools, which is an intimidating and weird set of tools. Most new stuff written in C/C++ use now Meson and it feels sane. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
If you are very fortunate, you'll be able to choose something else. I like meson myself: it looks a bit like python, it's popular, small, simple, well-documented, easy to install and update, and it works well everywhere. Source: 8 months ago
I suggest changing the build tool. Meson improved C and C++ a lot: https://mesonbuild.com/ The dependency declaration and auto-detection is nice. But the hidden extra is WrapDB, built-in package management (if wanted):- Source: Hacker News / 8 months agohttps://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html.
> C's only REAL problem (in my opinion) which is the lack of dependency management. Most everything else can be done with a makefile and a half decent editor. Care to hear about our lord and saviour Meson? Both of your quoted problems are mutually incompatible: dependency management isn't the job of the compiler, it's a job for the build or host system. If you want to keep writing makefiles, be prepared to write... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
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