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.
