[libcamera-devel] [PATCH] README.rst: Drop recommendation to install meson using pip3

[Kieran Bingham]

Quoting Laurent Pinchart (2023-09-14 23:03:13)
> Usage of pip3 to install meson may result in a different meson version
> available for the local user and for root. This causes issues when
> running `meson install` (directly or through `ninja install`):
> Installing to a system location will request elevated privileges and use
> the system meson version to install files, which may fail to unpickle
> data pickled with the meson version for the local user.
> 
> As all major distributions now provide a recent-enough version of meson,
> usage of pip3 is not longer needed in most cases, and shouldn't be
> recommended. Drop it.
> 
> While at it, update the version of meson listed in the documentation to
> match the required version.
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.libcamera.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>  README.rst | 10 +---------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
> index df2818e1f598..6eed72389a86 100644
> --- a/README.rst
> +++ b/README.rst
> @@ -47,15 +47,7 @@ A C++ toolchain: [required]
>          Either {g++, clang}
>  
>  Meson Build system: [required]
> -        meson (>= 0.56) ninja-build pkg-config
> -
> -        If your distribution doesn't provide a recent enough version of meson,
> -        you can install or upgrade it using pip3.
> -
> -        .. code::
> -
> -            pip3 install --user meson
> -            pip3 install --user --upgrade meson
> +        meson (>= 0.57) ninja-build pkg-config
>  
>  for the libcamera core: [required]
>          libyaml-dev python3-yaml python3-ply python3-jinja2
> 
> base-commit: 58e501c71c47e57f02afde1bd296a037038cd6d5
> prerequisite-patch-id: d9c748d5c7361a9489176ff3f3e4c4e807e93b5a
> prerequisite-patch-id: 79b114f63d2d0dce812a9c9d3033b4a915037e01
> prerequisite-patch-id: 0fec5b708550ac685fd0dee76120932b272b2a74
> prerequisite-patch-id: c9f2ac2f7d50930d7164ff732f4fb499238715e6
> prerequisite-patch-id: b7d57dd39a032a92e05d3d4e22bb821b085e2291
> prerequisite-patch-id: 084351f43f3f5f6886451a5b53bd7179f1b8b85f
> prerequisite-patch-id: d234444f68b826d24c6f4d5371873e18766e88e3
> prerequisite-patch-id: 66dfe4522bc50ed0454f07c747c93c300c854a86
> prerequisite-patch-id: 6d8b7e073016a3ccfe689d071f9c03a911538067
> prerequisite-patch-id: de720d5310e0889e748deb63556ac797cb7743fa
> prerequisite-patch-id: ec1ec005eab22d9e70111c050b1e244027ce1fba
> prerequisite-patch-id: 4acc618067ba4cc796c2bc62dea12b652b2d0b8d
> prerequisite-patch-id: c0e4433160c2d2af0245fc06de871063e8db9d74
> prerequisite-patch-id: 49b44116fbed84761795b52523ce1990ca1ba29e
> prerequisite-patch-id: a001ddcd0401b7fc09ad2ed8b70689a46046d6b3
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Laurent Pinchart
>