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Re: minimum Meson version

Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>

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From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jesper Pedersen <jesperpedersen.db@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2025-06-18T18:25:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On Wed, 2025-06-18 at 13:27 -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2025-06-18 13:20:54 -0400, Jesper Pedersen wrote:
> > On 6/18/25 1:07 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > Since any policy
> > > that anyone is likely to actually propose falls somewhere between
> > > those two extremes, half of us are then bitterly unhappy with it.
> > > 
> > 
> > Which is why I tried to add Devrim to the thread.
> > 
> > What builds on yum.postgresql.org are using meson ? If none of the
> > RHEL 8
> > ones are then the minimum requirements for ninja and meson can be
> > bumped to
> > the minimum versions to the ones that are.
> 
> The context of the discussion is removing autoconf based builds
> eventually (in some future major version). For that it doesn't really
> matter whether yum.pg.o currently uses meson.

It could matter if I was building RPMs using meson. I am not. I don't
have any plans to do so in near future.

Anyway, I think v21 will be a reasonable version to stop supporting RHEL
8. At that point I will be happy to switch to meson builds. Until then
feel free to use any reasonable meson version. The version on RHEL 9
could be a good minimum choice: meson -> 0.63.3 , ninja-build: 1.10.2
per the reasons stated in this thread.

Regards,

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