Re: Meson Versions for DPDK

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

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 05:36:46PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 08:59:04AM -0400, Lincoln Lavoie wrote:
> >    Hi All,
> >    The current version of meson is pinned to 0.49.2, which was released in
> >    February 2019.  At least it's pinned to that version within
> >    .ci/linux-setup.sh.
> >    Current version of 0.63.1, and defaults "shipped" with operating
> >    systems are newer than the 0.49.2 version and do break the DPDK
> >    compile.
> >    It's not practical to always support the newest (i.e. removing any
> >    pinning of the version), but it also shouldn't be something we pin to a
> >    single version forever.  So, opening up a discussion about what
> >    strategy could be used for maintaining the meson version that is
> >    "supported" for dpdk.  That version would be used for all CI testing.
> >    Cheers,
> >    Lincoln
> >    --
> 
> To get the discussion started, I think we need to look at what the default
> versions shipped with common distributions are. Thankfully, we are not
> limited to those defaults, due to the ease of installing updated versions
> using pip3, but it helps to serve as a baseline. I see Ubuntu 20.04 lists
> 0.53.2 as the baseline version there [1], for example. That may be a good
> minimum to look at, though we perhaps want to update beyond that.
> 
> /Bruce
> 
> [1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/devel/meson

In the absense of any objections or further discussion here, I've posted a
patch to bump meson minimum version to 0.53. Ref:
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220912170747.3128065-2-bruce.richardson@intel.com/