From 10cff0976adf2a0eebb79f52f3569f7751a30317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:02:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] MAINT: small simplification of meson.build following best
 practices

---
 meson.build                     | 4 +---
 pandas/_libs/window/meson.build | 2 --
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index a927b59abeaf9..70bc7ad575581 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -16,10 +16,8 @@ project(
     ]
 )
 
-py_mod = import('python')
 fs = import('fs')
-py = py_mod.find_installation('python')
-py_dep = py.dependency()
+py = import('python').find_installation()
 tempita = files('generate_pxi.py')
 versioneer = files('generate_version.py')
 
diff --git a/pandas/_libs/window/meson.build b/pandas/_libs/window/meson.build
index b83d8730f9447..85aa060a26406 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/window/meson.build
+++ b/pandas/_libs/window/meson.build
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ py.extension_module(
     ['aggregations.pyx'],
     cython_args: ['-X always_allow_keywords=true'],
     include_directories: [inc_np, inc_pd],
-    dependencies: [py_dep],
     subdir: 'pandas/_libs/window',
     override_options : ['cython_language=cpp'],
     install: true
@@ -14,7 +13,6 @@ py.extension_module(
     ['indexers.pyx'],
     cython_args: ['-X always_allow_keywords=true'],
     include_directories: [inc_np, inc_pd],
-    dependencies: [py_dep],
     subdir: 'pandas/_libs/window',
     install: true
 )

From 3944d501a8f4dc3c053102e8039e0abe6f9d0567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:04:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] MAINT: remove comment about resolved issue

---
 meson.build | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 70bc7ad575581..09a1494135af4 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ project(
     license: 'BSD-3',
     meson_version: '>=1.0.1',
     default_options: [
-        # TODO: investigate, does meson try to compile against debug Python
-        # when buildtype = debug, this seems to be causing problems on CI
-        # where provided Python is not compiled in debug mode
         'buildtype=release',
         # TODO: Reactivate werror, some warnings on Windows
         #'werror=true',

From ac79dc4d7a3feac58e50f8325d52b396a1f3d07f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:07:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] BUG: fix build with default Homebrew Python setup

Homebrew does not install a python link, just python3.
---
 meson.build | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 09a1494135af4..e16f565d491fe 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 project(
     'pandas',
     'c', 'cpp', 'cython',
-    version: run_command(['python', 'generate_version.py', '--print'], check: true).stdout().strip(),
+    version: run_command(['python3', 'generate_version.py', '--print'], check: true).stdout().strip(),
     license: 'BSD-3',
     meson_version: '>=1.0.1',
     default_options: [