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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...'
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...' |
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Thu, 13 May 2010 15:00:45 +0100 |
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> > But that is no different from what we have today. Users who update their
> > qemu and see issues with libvirt can also be asked to update libvirt. I
> > have already had several cases where I needed to do that anyway.
>
> The general policy of QEMU has been to try and avoid known breakage of
> existing apps unless unavoidable. This change introduced 100% guarenteed
> breakage of every single deployment that exists today, for the sake of
> removing 2 characters from a string. I really don't think this is a good
> cost/benefit tradeoff & agree with Cole that I'd like to see this reverted
> for the 0.13 release, and re-considered in a later release once we've had
> a chance to get a preventative fix out for libvirt using -version-string
> or equivalent.
For a stable release I'd agree, we shouldn't be breaking anything.
If combined with a version version bump I care a lot less.
Paul
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Cole Robinson, 2010/05/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Jes Sorensen, 2010/05/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Cole Robinson, 2010/05/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Jes Sorensen, 2010/05/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Cole Robinson, 2010/05/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Jes Sorensen, 2010/05/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/05/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Luiz Capitulino, 2010/05/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...',
Paul Brook <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Blue Swirl, 2010/05/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Stuart Brady, 2010/05/13
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...', Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/14