Re: [PATCH] Increasing ci meson version to .57

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 09:47:12AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 5:43 AM Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue,  8 Oct 2024 15:25:43 -0400
> > Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > There is a proposed increase in the minimum meson version to .57
> > > This patch aligns the linux setup ci script with this change.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Robb <probb@iol.unh.edu>
> >
> > I wonder if we shouldn't push it to something later.
> > Debian stable is using 1.0.1 and testing is up to 1.5.2
> >
> > 0.57.0 was released on Feb 14,2021
> > 1.0.0 was released on Dec 23, 2022
> >
> > So getting a release that was more recent makes sense.
> > The users stuck on enterprise distro's are going to have to resort
> > to pip anyway to get a new version.
> 
> Tyler reported an issue for Windows with meson > 0.57.
> https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/ZvuoUizQiDeE62zB@bricha3-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com/
> 
Yes, this was a factor in choosing 0.57.
The other is that this is just a minimum version, so if distros are
shipping later that is absolutely no problem. We are better to err on the
side of being cautious here IMHO.

/Bruce