From 5998953a004bf3c4f8432c83dfd849b835a8ea39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 21:51:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] MAINT: remove dead code

Left over from Python < 3.9 support removal.
---
 mesonpy/_tags.py | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mesonpy/_tags.py b/mesonpy/_tags.py
index 9bb93bad..7d346b95 100644
--- a/mesonpy/_tags.py
+++ b/mesonpy/_tags.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 
 if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:  # pragma: no cover
-    from typing import Optional, Union
+    from typing import Optional
 
 
 # https://peps.python.org/pep-0425/#python-tag
@@ -36,13 +36,6 @@ def get_interpreter_tag() -> str:
     return f'{name}{version[0]}{version[1]}'
 
 
-def _get_config_var(name: str, default: Union[str, int, None] = None) -> Union[str, int, None]:
-    value: Union[str, int, None] = sysconfig.get_config_var(name)
-    if value is None:
-        return default
-    return value
-
-
 def get_abi_tag() -> str:
     # The best solution to obtain the Python ABI is to parse the
     # $SOABI or $EXT_SUFFIX sysconfig variables as defined in PEP-314.

From 4717e4f1c8adcfeb3e960ff987108f647f592048 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 21:57:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] MAINT: modernize typing annotations for the _tags module

---
 mesonpy/_tags.py | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mesonpy/_tags.py b/mesonpy/_tags.py
index 7d346b95..00c86100 100644
--- a/mesonpy/_tags.py
+++ b/mesonpy/_tags.py
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@
 import struct
 import sys
 import sysconfig
-import typing
-
-
-if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:  # pragma: no cover
-    from typing import Optional
 
 
 # https://peps.python.org/pep-0425/#python-tag
@@ -168,7 +163,7 @@ def get_platform_tag() -> str:
 
 
 class Tag:
-    def __init__(self, interpreter: Optional[str] = None, abi: Optional[str] = None, platform: Optional[str] = None):
+    def __init__(self, interpreter: str | None = None, abi: str | None = None, platform: str | None = None):
         self.interpreter = interpreter or get_interpreter_tag()
         self.abi = abi or get_abi_tag()
         self.platform = platform or get_platform_tag()