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Re: minimum Meson version

Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>

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From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-18T18:23:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On Wed, 2025-06-18 at 09:35 +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> Okay, so maybe pip install is not what they want. But they could still
> create a recent ninja & meson RPM themselves right. 

It could be doable if we were talking about just two packages and then
there are a lot of dependencies and it may end up rebuilding the OS
(exaggerating a bit, but you get the point. I recently did something
similar for Python 3.12 on RHEL 8 and 9 and spent lots of time: 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/devrimgunduz_barman-needs-zstandard-after-switch-to-python-activity-7335524776771280897-uHgV/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAATxVABq0EKuezSWw42pKVDH5PitvnXQf8

)

So as Peter wrote, packagers stick with the OS packages as much as they
can.

Regards,
-- 
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
BlueSky: @devrim.gunduz.org , @gunduz.org