Re: minimum Meson version

Hi,

On 2025-06-17 16:09:19 -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> 
> > From my POV, which I am sure is not uniformly shared, we don't need to
> > support
> > new major PG versions on things like RHEL 8.
> 
> 
> Ha ha ha ha! (wipes tears from eyes).

Thanks for that, ... uh ... , thoughful response.


> RHEL 8 is still cutting edge / very active for many companies out there. And
> it's officially supported for many years to come.

Please do note that I was not suggesting removing support for it from minor
versions and that the earliest we, IMO, would conceivably remove autoconf
support would be PG 20.

I'm sure there will be some folks desperate to run PG 20 on RHEL 8, ~3 years
after main support ended, 2 years before end of maintenance support, but it
won't be that many. And for those it still wouldn't be hard, they'd need to
install some up2date dependencies, but that's the price for doing something
that's a really really bad practice.

Andres Freund