Re: minimum Meson version

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2025-06-17 13:48:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> RHEL 8 does include meson 0.58.2.  However, it also ships ninja 1.8.2
>> which is too old:

> IIRC we discussed this before, in some other thread. We could make that work,
> but at the time we didn't consider it worth working on.

Yeah, we've definitely been over that before.  I think at the time
we were still in the mode of "get meson to work at all", and so it
didn't seem high priority.  But it's the sort of cleanup we need
to start thinking about if we want meson to be our only build system.

> 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. After all full support for RHEL 8
> has ended a year ago.

Nope, I don't share that opinion.  RHEL 8 will be a perfectly usable
platform at least through 2029 (when maintenance support will stop,
according to wikipedia).  And LTS platforms like that are our bread
and butter for real-world use.

            regards, tom lane