Re: minimum Meson version

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,

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