Parsing and generating meson.build files

[bruchar1]

In my project, I want to write scripts to do the following:

• Check for errors in meson.build files (missing subdir, missing source files, etc.)
• Generate meson.build files (when creating a new library in the project, or when importing existing part of the project)
• Ensure consistency in the meson.build files format (indentations, blank lines, etc.)

meson provides introspect --ast and rewrite commands. However, those commands seem to only support partially what I want to achieve. What would be the best approach?

Should I try to improve meson to be able to:

• parse ast in arbitrary meson files
• convert ast to a meson.build file (that would be a meson file formatter)

Or would I be better to do this on my own, using regexp and string manipulation?

[kif]

Hi, I find this interesting since I would like to write unit-tests ensuring all files are effectively handled by meson ...