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Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies |
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Mon, 3 Jun 2019 19:17:51 +0100 |
On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 19:02, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:
> That policy strikes me as weird, because RHEL7 is not going to be, in
> general, using the latest and greatest QEMU. Usually stable versions of
> distros stick with the versions of the programs that came out at the time.
>
> What's the benefit of making sure that stable platforms can continue to
> run the *newest* QEMU? Is this even a reasonable restriction? If you are
> running RHEL7, how many projects do you expect to be able to git clone
> and build and have that work with the rest of your legacy/stable
> dependencies?
The benefit is that in general people who want to build QEMU
from source can do so. I don't want us to be the kind of
project that needs latest-and-greatest-foo for everything
to build, because that sort of project is pretty infuriating
to try to work with if you're an occasional contributor.
"Builds on LTS distros" is an easy-to-express way to keep
things from getting out of hand.
Plus a bunch of the build machines we do testing on are
not running bleeding edge distros, and as Connie says plenty
of developers do QEMU development on non-bleeding-edge versions
(my primary dev box run an LTS Ubuntu).
thanks
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, Markus Armbruster, 2019/06/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, John Snow, 2019/06/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, Cornelia Huck, 2019/06/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, John Snow, 2019/06/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, Peter Maydell, 2019/06/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, John Snow, 2019/06/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, Markus Armbruster, 2019/06/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, John Snow, 2019/06/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, Gerd Hoffmann, 2019/06/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2019/06/05