David Marchand, Sep 19, 2024 at 13:32:
On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richard...@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.richard...@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.