[dpdk-dev] Meson Minimum Version

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 02:22:03PM +0000, John Alexander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've submitted a patch that uses new features of Meson, specifically the directory patch aspect of the subproject feature.  This requires a minimum Meson version of 0.55.0.  How do we go about getting the community to accept a more recent version of Meson and getting the Travis server upgraded too so the CI builds succeed?
> 
> Patch link for reference: http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/78675/
> 
Hi John,

from what I understand the specific dependency on 0.55 is the support for
local patchfiles for the wrapped software, and that previous versions only
supported using patches pulled remotely - is that correct? 

While I'm in favour of incrementing the minimum meson version in general,
since 0.55 is the very latest version I am worried about any impacts that
might have, since it will basically mean that everyone building DPDK has to
pull meson from pip rather than being able to use a distro-supplied
version. Updating to something a little less recent would be more my
preference.

Then again, using the wrap system to pull in dependencies seems something
really good to have, so maybe the initial pain of requiring a recent meson
is worth it!

Thoughts from others?

Regards,
/Bruce