[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] meson: fix minimum required meson version
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Mar 23 10:38:25 CET 2021
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 07:22:00AM +0100, Gabriel Ganne wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the review.
> I have some reservations about those TODO: they are about
> rewriting the same functionality with a newer meson feature.
> No functional change is expected. => Why not write a commit that
> implements such a TODO and bumps meson version at the same time
> independently ?
> In any case, I aimed to set meson's required version to the lowest
> possible value
> so that distributions would have a chance to provide it. I know we can
> just
> install meson using pip, but it might be nice not to need this.
> Below are some versions of meson packages as of today:
> pip: 0.57.1
> rhel-8: 0.49.2
> debian-10: 0.49.2
> ubuntu-18.04: 0.45.1
> ubuntu-20.04: 0.53.2
> Going over 0.49.2 will cause DPDK to lose some major distribution's
> stable release,
> at least out-of-the-box through their respective package manager.
> I propose to bump to 0.49.2 here, and leave the TODOs to wait a little
> longer.
+1
However, I don't think we need the ".2" specifically, since new features
don't come in point releases, so I'd suggest just making "0.49" the
minimum.
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