Paolo, why did your patch get stalled?
It just wasn't worthwhile at the time given how few meson options were there. I missed 6.1 and was going to send it out again for 6.2.
The reason for using Perl was because there's no guarantee of knowing the path to the Python interpreter until after --python is parsed, so there would be a risk of not being able to give a full help. I don't like Perl very much, but the difference in obscurity between Perl and Eric-level sh is small. :)
Paolo
... my way of parsing is certainly
way more fragile, but it's less complicated and seems to work as long as all
the options are written in the same way in meson_options.txt (e.g. as long
as nobody tries to use multi-line descriptions of the options there etc.)...
so maybe if the additional Perl script was too much, this could be a good
compromise?
Thomas