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 Calling python (as a build tool) outdated when the last 3.6.x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
