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Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?
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Glauber Costa |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2? |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:56:12 -0200 |
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>>
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> C.W. Betts wrote:
>>>
>>>>
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>>>> When will qemu be given the status of 0.9.2? I was browsing the source
>>>> code of the Qemu that ships with OpenSuSE and noticed that there are a lot
>>>> of patches. It would probably be helpful if there was a release that
>>>> didn't depend on GCC 4.
>>>>
>>>> Also, what targets still depend on dyngen? And is anyone working on
>>>> porting them to TCG?
>>>>
>>>
>>> A lot of previously supported hosts are no longer supported with TCG. I
>>> would think adding those hosts would be more important than completing the
>>> TCG conversion before cutting a new release.
>>>
>>
>> I disagree. The most important hosts are supported, the other hosts
>> were largely experimental anyway, and getting rid of dyngen / gcc3
>> is IMHO worth a release.
>>
>
> Personally, I'd like to see much more frequent releases (every 3-6 months).
> I'm okay with not having complete features (like the dyngen->TCG
> conversion) or host regressions because I think there's value in having
> releases regularly compared to feature based releases.
>
> What do other people think? I'd be willing to do the leg work of releases.
I believe there's a lot of users who grab the stable releases, but
won't grab the development snapshots.
So usually releasing official releases more often means more testing happening.
I believe it's worthy.
--
Glauber Costa.
"Free as in Freedom"
http://glommer.net
"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
- [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, C . W . Betts, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Laurent Desnogues, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Aurelien Jarno, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Anthony Liguori, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Thiemo Seufer, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Paul Brook, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Anthony Liguori, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Paul Brook, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Anthony Liguori, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Thiemo Seufer, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Glauber Costa, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Armin, 2008/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?, Andreas Färber, 2008/10/26