Has meson replaced autotools?

[dangarbri]

It seems like a bunch of projects have migrated to meson vs. autotools but I haven't really seen much discussion about it.
Granted, I haven't been diligently keeping up on these things anyway.
I do remember always seeing complaints about autotools and I've seen it called "autohell" quite often.

Are the days of "./configure; make; make install" going away?

 

[dos2unix]

Maybe for some things. But I still see configure/make in most GNU projects.

Meson is complicated and ... sloooooooooooooooooooooow. I hope it doesn't catch on.

 

[dangarbri]

Pretty much the whole gnome desktop environment has moved to meson. I've been looking at some gnome projects which I guess is why I see meson everywhere.

I haven't worked in a project where I've had to write any build configurations with either system, but I was getting pretty curious about it and wanted to get a feel for opinions on them.

 

[dos2unix]

You're right about Gnome.

Users

mesonbuild.com

But I only see less than 200 projects, (out of over 34,000) that use it.