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Not sure, but afaik, one of the first big changes was to use Meson for building, instead of Dolstra's homegrown build system.

Apparently, the switch to Meson was approved, and coded, ages ago, but Dolstra kept dragging his heels on it.



I'm afraid the letter spread some misinformation: The meson RFC has in fact not been approved: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/132

For a discussion on this, see https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained/issues/1


Doesn't that get the timeline backwards? I thought the RFC was opened in response to inaction on the part of switching to Meson, which had been informally agreed-on.


I'm going to quote https://save-nix-together.org/:

> Single-handedly blocking Meson, which has a passed RFC, for five years because he doesn’t know meson but knows his own build system

I don't know about exact timelines, but the letter is definitely wrong about this part.




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