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

[Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>]

2021-03-23 07:22 (UTC+0100), Gabriel Ganne:
> 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.
> What do you think ?

Yes, sounds practical.
I rather meant to recollect known TODOs then to propose solving all at once.