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authorTom Schoonjans2016-12-19 21:51:57 +0100
committerTom Schoonjans2016-12-19 21:51:57 +0100
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brew create: add meson support
meson is quickly gaining popularity as build system, in combination with ninja. Several Gnome projects for example are currently transitioning from autotools to meson, mostly because it allows for Visual Studio builds, which is impossible to accomplish with autotools. In order to facilitate generating meson based Formulas, I added support for meson to brew-create.
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url-and-sha256 style specification into a tag-and-revision style
specification, nor vice versa. It must use whichever style specification
the preexisting formula already uses.</p></dd>
-<dt><code>create</code> <var>URL</var> [<code>--autotools</code>|<code>--cmake</code>] [<code>--no-fetch</code>] [<code>--set-name</code> <var>name</var>] [<code>--set-version</code> <var>version</var>] [<code>--tap</code> <var>user</var><code>/</code><var>repo</var>]</dt><dd><p>Generate a formula for the downloadable file at <var>URL</var> and open it in the editor.
+<dt><code>create</code> <var>URL</var> [<code>--autotools</code>|<code>--cmake</code>|<code>--meson</code>] [<code>--no-fetch</code>] [<code>--set-name</code> <var>name</var>] [<code>--set-version</code> <var>version</var>] [<code>--tap</code> <var>user</var><code>/</code><var>repo</var>]</dt><dd><p>Generate a formula for the downloadable file at <var>URL</var> and open it in the editor.
Homebrew will attempt to automatically derive the formula name
and version, but if it fails, you'll have to make your own template. The <code>wget</code>
formula serves as a simple example. For the complete API have a look at</p>
@@ -512,7 +512,8 @@ formula serves as a simple example. For the complete API have a look at</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/brew/master/Formula" data-bare-link="true">http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/brew/master/Formula</a></p>
<p>If <code>--autotools</code> is passed, create a basic template for an Autotools-style build.
-If <code>--cmake</code> is passed, create a basic template for a CMake-style build.</p>
+If <code>--cmake</code> is passed, create a basic template for a CMake-style build.
+If <code>--meson</code> is passed, create a basic template for a Meson-style build.</p>
<p>If <code>--no-fetch</code> is passed, Homebrew will not download <var>URL</var> to the cache and
will thus not add the SHA256 to the formula for you.</p>