Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] buildsys: Bump minimal meson version required to v1.2.3

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 9/11/23 18:01, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > We need meson v1.2.3 to build QEMU on macOS Sonoma.
> >
> > It also build fine all our CI jobs, so let's use it as our
> > "good enough" packaged wheel.
> >
> > Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1939
> > Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >   python/wheels/meson-0.63.3-py3-none-any.whl | Bin 926526 -> 0 bytes
> >   python/wheels/meson-1.2.3-py3-none-any.whl  | Bin 0 -> 964928 bytes
> >   pythondeps.toml                             |   2 +-
> >   3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >   delete mode 100644 python/wheels/meson-0.63.3-py3-none-any.whl
> >   create mode 100644 python/wheels/meson-1.2.3-py3-none-any.whl

This file comes from https://pypi.org/project/meson/1.2.3/

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https://pypi.org/project/meson/1.2.3/#copy-hash-modal-b6a34cf2-bd2f-4018-bfb0-b10d0fba8a3d

> > diff --git a/pythondeps.toml b/pythondeps.toml
> > index 0a35ebcf9f..a2f8c1980b 100644
> > --- a/pythondeps.toml
> > +++ b/pythondeps.toml
> > @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
> >
> >   [meson]
> >   # The install key should match the version in python/wheels/
> > -meson = { accepted = ">=0.63.0", installed = "0.63.3", canary = "meson" }
> > +meson = { accepted = ">=1.2.3", installed = "1.2.3", canary = "meson" }
>
> We don't need to block older versions of Meson, and indeed we don't
> want to because it's fine to use the distro package everywhere
> (including Sonoma).  (So the subject would become would be
> "buildsys: Bump known good meson version to v1.2.3).
>
> You can look at sphinx below for another case where the accepted
> versions are much older than the installed one.
>
> If there's anything you'd like to add to the (just sent) documentation
> to clarify this, please help.
>
> Paolo
>
> >   [docs]
> >   sphinx = { accepted = ">=1.6", installed = "5.3.0", canary = "sphinx-build" }