• closes BUILD: pandas build failing on Gitpod due to Meson #55214
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The issue is that meson is out of date in gitpod.

pip install --upgrade meson

The above command fixes the issue, so I added it to the build instructions in gitpod.yml. It could be added to the dockerfile instead, but I decided to be cautious.

I added the update command to both the init and command sections because gitpod sometimes skips the init section and goes straight to the command section without installing anything.

With the fix:

gitpod@theuerc-pandas-jy3jlfp1dg6:/workspace/pandas$ python
Python 3.10.8 (main, Dec  6 2022, 14:13:21) [GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pandas
+ /usr/local/bin/ninja
[1/1] Generating write_version_file with a custom command
>>> pandas.to_datetime("2022-01-01")
Timestamp('2022-01-01 00:00:00')
>>> 

I'm running the tests in gitpod overnight and I'll check the log file in the morning.

Update:

These are the results:

661 failed, 211445 passed, 7990 skipped, 2426 xfailed, 15 xpassed, 405 warnings, 58 errors in 4524.22s (1:15:24)

The failed tests are the ones that interact with either S3 or a nonexistent SQL server, so I think everything works.