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replace the build system with meson
Meson is a modern build system that has seen a rise in adoption and some
version of it is available in almost every platform supported.

Compared to automake, meson has the following advantages:

* Meson provides a significant boost to the build and configuration time
  by better exploiting parallelism.

* Meson is subjectively considered to be better in readability.

These merits alone justify experimenting with meson as a way of
improving development time and ergonomics. However, there are some
compromises to ensure the transition goes relatively smooth:

* The system tests currently rely on various files within the source
  directory. Changing this requirement is a non-trivial task that can't
  be currently justified. Currently the last compiled build directory
  writes into the source tree which is in turn used by pytest.

* The minimum version supported has been fixed at 0.61. Increasing this
  value will require choosing a baseline of distributions that can
  package with meson. On the contrary, there will likely be an attempt
  to decrease this value to ensure almost universal support for building
  BIND 9 with meson.
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copyrights Update the copyright information in all files in the repository 2022-01-11 09:05:02 +01:00
dev.md Give every memory context a name 2025-05-29 05:46:46 +02:00
HOW-ADB-WORKS.txt Update the copyright information in all files in the repository 2022-01-11 09:05:02 +01:00
libuv.md Update documentation for 9.20.0 2024-07-08 14:53:01 +02:00
loopmgr.md update docs: only one loopmgr is expected 2024-12-05 10:32:11 +00:00
rdata.md Simplify dns_name_init() 2025-02-25 12:17:34 +01:00
results remove references to obsolete isc_task/timer functions 2023-02-22 08:13:30 +00:00
style.md replace the build system with meson 2025-06-11 10:30:12 +03:00
unexpected De-duplicate __FILE__, __LINE__ 2022-10-17 11:58:26 +01:00