1998 was 22 years ago. At some point we've gotta let it go. And I'm not going to argue about Boost, but it'll suffice to say that I passionately hate C++ and Bo

1998 was 22 years ago. At some point we've gotta let it go. And I'm not going to argue about Boost, but it'll suffice to say that I passionately hate C++ and Boost is a big part of why. That Ardour is a C++ project has a lot to do with its sprawling complexity, these are often correlated (which is why I guessed C++ from your earlier description). Also, I would definitely recommend looking into Meson instead of waf, having used both. Anyway, I think we have reached something resembling an understanding. Your dependencies are fairly reasonable, but there's room to and reason to cull them down a bit.