Do something smarter with options
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Description
We have a lot of options, which makes the option list already quite difficult to decipher. We are probably going to get more, see for example #2567. This means we should have some better way of managing them.
A possible option is to mark rarer options as "advanced" and hide them by default. They would only be shown if doing `meson configure --advanced`.
Other approaches to providing for this are gladly accepted. This is just something I come up with after 10 minutes of thinking.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by examining how the `meson configure` command currently presents options, then read issue #2567 for related context. The issue proposes an advanced-option mode but leaves alternative designs and implementation scope open, so a contributor would first need to define the behavior and identify the relevant option-handling code.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100