Re: [Qemu-devel] proposal: drop support for OSX 10.5 hosts from QEMU 2.6

[Alexander Graf]

> Am 28.11.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Peter Maydell <address@hidden>:
> 
> Hi. I'd like to propose that QEMU drops support for OSX 10.5 hosts
> (and by extension for PPC OSX hosts) starting with QEMU 2.6.
> 
> The rationale here is basically that it's not tested at all as
> far as I know -- I have been carefully retaining "only if 10.5"
> ifdefs in the cocoa UI and audio code as I update it, but since
> I have no 10.5 system to compile against it this support is
> only theoretical and I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find
> that it's actually broken. Dropping 10.5 would also allow us to drop
> some ifdeffed code paths, but I wouldn't mind carrying them around if
> we people were actually using them -- which I suspect nobody is!
> OSX 10.5 is now over 8 years old; I think we'd have dropped it
> some time ago if it wasn't the last PPC version.
> 
> My suggested plan would be:
> * in the 2.5 release notes, announce that support for OSX 10.5 and PPC
>   hosts is deprecated and will be removed from QEMU 2.6 unless somebody
>   steps forward to help with testing
> * at some point probably a little before 2.6 softfreeze, remove the
>   now unnecessary ifdeffery
> 
> Any disagreements? Am I wrong about nobody testing QEMU on 10.5?

I think that sounds reasonable :)

Alex