mesonbuild/meson

TUI to configure Meson (akin to `ccmake`)

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#2,470 opened on Oct 10, 2017

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Description

One feature from CMake that I like is ccmake, a TUI program that allows the user to quickly see all the project's options and set the ones they want.

I would love something similar to be implemented for Meson (meson configure --tui, perhaps?).

(This is a feature request, and apologies if it's already been requested, I couldn't find it)

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Research direction
Implement a text based user interface for configuring Meson project options, similar to ccmake. Investigate existing Meson configuration APIs and choose a TUI library like 'textual' or 'prompt toolkit'.
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python
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build system
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Python
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