[PATCH v2 0/4] simplify doing 32-bit DPDK builds

[Robin Jarry]

David Marchand, Sep 19, 2024 at 13:32:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 10:08:21AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 10:02 AM Bruce Richardson
> > > <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> > > > Overall, I think we haven't increased our minimum meson version in some
> > > > time. Maybe it's time to consider doing so in this release or the next one?
> > > > Need to look through release notes to see how far forward to jump to see
> > > > what extra features might be useful for us to leverage.
> > >
> > > That's an option, just be careful that there is some tie with python
> > > versions iirc.
> > >
> > Right. Do we have a minimum python version from various distros that we
> > need to support?
>
> We have a minimum version (3.6) in DPDK, harder to tell with all the
> distros around.
> Robin, any idea/guidance?

3.6 is really old. I think it is safe to bump it to at least 3.9.

https://repology.org/project/python/badges

It depends how backwards compatible DPDK wants to remain.