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		ahartmetz on Jan 31, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A better build system for OCaml Meson's approach to simplicity is if you need anything nontrivial, you simply add it to Meson itself. In CMake, you can script it in more cases.

homebrewer on Jan 31, 2025 [–]

Depends on what you need; you can easily call out to external Python scripts to solve many problems, which will work everywhere because Python is needed to run meson itself.

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