Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] meson: fix minimum required meson version

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

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.