On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 02:09:20PM +0200, Robin Jarry wrote: > 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. > Looking down that list at the link, I would agree that 3.9 is a good minimum. That covers us for all the distros we care about, I think.
/Bruce
