DOC Mention that Meson is the main supported way to build scikit-learn (#29008)

lesteve · betatim · web-flow · commit 68b7598fe03f · 2024-05-13T16:06:05.000Z
Co-authored-by: Tim Head &lt;betatim@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/doc/whats_new/v1.5.rst b/doc/whats_new/v1.5.rst
@@ -95,12 +95,16 @@ See :ref:`array_api` for more details.
 Support for building with Meson
 -------------------------------
 
-Meson is now supported as a build backend, see :ref:`Building from source
-<install_bleeding_edge>` for more details.
+From scikit-learn 1.5 onwards, Meson is the main supported way to build
+scikit-learn, see :ref:`Building from source <install_bleeding_edge>` for more
+details.
 
-:pr:`28040` by :user:`Loïc Estève <lesteve>`
+Unless we discover a major blocker, setuptools support will be dropped in
+scikit-learn 1.6. The 1.5.x releases will support building scikit-learn with
+setuptools.
 
-TODO Fill more details before the 1.5 release, when the Meson story has settled down.
+Meson support for building scikit-learn was added in :pr:`28040` by :user:`Loïc
+Estève <lesteve>`
 
 Metadata Routing
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