Meson has a common pattern of using 'if len(foo) == 0:' or
'if len(foo) != 0:', however, this is a common anti-pattern in python.
Instead tests for emptiness/non-emptiness should be done with a simple
'if foo:' or 'if not foo:'
Consider the following:
>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.timeit('if len([]) == 0: pass')
0.10730923599840025
>>> timeit.timeit('if not []: pass')
0.030033907998586074
>>> timeit.timeit('if len(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']) == 0: pass')
0.1154778649979562
>>> timeit.timeit("if not ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']: pass")
0.08259823200205574
>>> timeit.timeit('if len("") == 0: pass')
0.089759664999292
>>> timeit.timeit('if not "": pass')
0.02340641999762738
>>> timeit.timeit('if len("foo") == 0: pass')
0.08848102600313723
>>> timeit.timeit('if not "foo": pass')
0.04032287199879647
And for the one additional case of 'if len(foo.strip()) == 0', which can
be replaced with 'if not foo.isspace()'
>>> timeit.timeit('if len(" ".strip()) == 0: pass')
0.15294511600222904
>>> timeit.timeit('if " ".isspace(): pass')
0.09413968399894657
>>> timeit.timeit('if len(" abc".strip()) == 0: pass')
0.2023209120015963
>>> timeit.timeit('if " abc".isspace(): pass')
0.09571301700270851
In other words, it's always a win to not use len(), when you don't
actually want to check the length.
Use a titlecase for arbitrary language, this was we don't have 'C' in
lowercase.
Rename 'Static linking library $out' for 'Linking static target $out.'.
Add missing punctuation.
When cross compiling and looking for moc/uic/rcc you really want the
host binary.
Still fall back to QT_INSTALL_BINS as it appears that's the only
variable available with qt4.
zipapp only has a single entry point, so only the `meson` command will
work. `mesontest`, `mesonconf`, `mesonintrospect` won't, which is
terrible, really.
Ideally we should have a single entry point for all these instead, but
until that happens, we should not recommend zipapps.
Chiu Yue Chun
Dylan Baker
Jussi Pakkanen
Elliott Sales de Andrade
Peter Hutterer
Guillaume Poirier-Morency
Patrick Griffis
Gabríel Arthúr Pétursson
John Gallagher
Corey Ashford
Ernestas Kulik
Jon Turney
Paolo Borelli
Wade Berrier
Thibault Saunier
Nirbheek Chauhan
Mathieu Duponchelle