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From: Ladislav Michl <oss-lists@triops.cz>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de, christian.melki@t2data.com,
	p.zabel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 1/2] host-meson: version bump 0.61.4 -> 1.0.0
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:14:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y762P7CGqXW+fbcq@lenoch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230111112034.GK16340@pengutronix.de>

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:20:34PM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:15:38PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:02:54PM +0100, Christian Melki wrote:
> > > On 1/11/23 11:19, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > > > https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-0-0.html
> > > > 
> > > > This bumps the host Python minimum version requirement from 3.6 to 3.7.
> > > 
> > > Highly subjective disclaimer here,
> > > 
> > > This boils down to when ptxdist starts forcing users to python 3.7+ for
> > > building. Calling python (as a build tool) outdated when the last 3.6.x
> > > release was in late 2021, is a stretch.
> > > I'm pro upgrade, but also really dislike breaking stuff like this.
> > 
> > python3 package, therefore host-python as well is already at 3.10.4,
> > so it does not make any difference.
> 
> No, currently host-python is only for building target python packages. Not
> for build tools that use python. We use the system python for that.

Ah, thank you clarifying that.

> I've thought about changing that optionally. In that case,
> host-system-python3 would select host-python3. But so far, I've not seen a
> real need for it, because all reasonable Distros have a python that is
> sufficiently new.

In that unprobable case you'll end doing so, I would appreciate generic
mechanism of replacing host-system-* packages with host-* ones. Then
configure.ac could look only for bare minimum, while the rest could
be built later. scripts/kconfig included, so ptxdist would run out
of the box.

	l



  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-11 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-11 10:19 Philipp Zabel
2023-01-11 10:19 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/2] pre/Rules.make: let Meson generate relocatable .pc files Philipp Zabel
2023-02-08 11:49   ` [ptxdist] [APPLIED] " Michael Olbrich
2023-01-11 11:02 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 1/2] host-meson: version bump 0.61.4 -> 1.0.0 Christian Melki
2023-01-11 11:15   ` Ladislav Michl
2023-01-11 11:20     ` Christian Melki
2023-01-11 11:20     ` Michael Olbrich
2023-01-11 13:14       ` Ladislav Michl [this message]
2023-01-11 11:17   ` Michael Olbrich
2023-02-08 11:49 ` [ptxdist] [APPLIED] " Michael Olbrich

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