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Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] meson: improve summary of auto-detected features

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Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Date
Jul 10, 2025, 15:25 UTC
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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
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> The summary of auto-detected features prints a boolean for every option
> to tell the user whether or not the feature has been auto-enabled or
> not. This summary can be improved though, as in some cases this boolean
> is derived from a dependency. So if we pass in the dependency directly,
> then Meson knows to both print a boolean and, if the dependency was
> found, it also prints a version number.
>
> Adapt the code accordingly and enable `bool_yn` so that actual booleans
> are formatted similarly to dependencies. Before this change:
>
>   Auto-detected features
>     benchmarks      : true
>     curl            : true
>     expat           : true
>     gettext         : true
>     gitweb          : true
>     iconv           : true
>     pcre2           : true
>     perl            : true
>     python          : true
>
> And after this change, we now see the version numbers as expected:
>
>   Auto-detected features
>     benchmarks      : YES
>     curl            : YES 8.14.1
>     expat           : YES 2.7.1
>     gettext         : YES
>     gitweb          : YES
>     iconv           : YES
>     pcre2           : YES 10.44
>     perl            : YES
>     python          : YES
>
> Note that this change also enables colorization of the boolean options,
> green for "YES" and red for "NO".
Nice, I'm really liking this change.
I've also reviewed the rest of the patches, and all looks good to me.
-- 
Cheers,
Toon
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Message 39 of 46 in “A handful of Meson cleanups and improvements”
  1. 0/8 A handful of Meson cleanups and improvementsPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  2. 1/8 meson: stop discovering native version of PythonPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  3. Justin ToblerJul 8, 2025
  4. Patrick SteinhardtJul 9, 2025
  5. 2/8 meson: stop printing 'https' option twice in our summariesPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  6. 3/8 meson: improve summary of auto-detected featuresPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  7. Justin ToblerJul 8, 2025
  8. 4/8 meson: clean up unnecessary variablesPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  9. 5/8 meson: fix lookup of shell on MINGW64Patrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  10. 6/8 meson: fix GIT_EXEC_PATH with overridden -Dlibexecdir=Patrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  11. Ramsay JonesJul 3, 2025
  12. Patrick SteinhardtJul 8, 2025
  13. 7/8 meson: update subproject wrappersPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  14. 8/8 ci: use Meson's new `--slice` optionPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 3, 2025
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2025
  16. Jeff KingJul 8, 2025
  17. Jeff KingJul 8, 2025
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2025
  19. Patrick SteinhardtJul 8, 2025
  20. 0/8 A handful of Meson cleanups and improvementsPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  21. 1/8 meson: stop discovering native version of PythonPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  22. 2/8 meson: stop printing 'https' option twice in our summariesPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  23. 3/8 meson: improve summary of auto-detected featuresPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  24. 4/8 meson: clean up unnecessary variablesPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  25. 5/8 meson: fix lookup of shell on MINGW64Patrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  26. Justin ToblerJul 8, 2025
  27. 6/8 meson: fix GIT_EXEC_PATH with overridden -Dlibexecdir=Patrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  28. 7/8 meson: update subproject wrappersPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  29. 8/8 ci: use Meson's new `--slice` optionPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 8, 2025
  30. 0/8 A handful of Meson cleanups and improvementsPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  31. 1/8 meson: stop discovering native version of PythonPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  32. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2025
  33. Justin ToblerJul 9, 2025
  34. Eli SchwartzJul 9, 2025
  35. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2025
  36. 2/8 meson: stop printing 'https' option twice in our summariesPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  37. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2025
  38. 3/8 meson: improve summary of auto-detected featuresPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  39. Toon ClaesJul 10, 2025
  40. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2025
  41. 4/8 meson: clean up unnecessary variablesPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  42. 5/8 meson: fix lookup of shell on MINGW64Patrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  43. 6/8 meson: fix GIT_EXEC_PATH with overridden -Dlibexecdir=Patrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  44. 7/8 meson: update subproject wrappersPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  45. 8/8 ci: use Meson's new `--slice` optionPatrick Steinhardt, Jul 9, 2025
  46. Justin ToblerJul 9, 2025

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