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

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

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 02:09:20PM +0200, Robin Jarry wrote:
> David Marchand, Sep 19, 2024 at 13:32:
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM Bruce Richardson
> > <bruce.richardson@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@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.
> 
Looking down that list at the link, I would agree that 3.9 is a good
minimum. That covers us for all the distros we care about, I think.

/Bruce