Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

[Blue Swirl]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
>  On 09/05/2010 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly
>>>> Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might give more 
>>>> users
>>>> a chance of detecting runtime faults during the development cycle.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's doable and useful, yes.
>>
>> I doubt it's useful.
>>
>> We don't have a massive pool of developers sitting on their hands waiting
>> for something else to work on.  We don't have myriads of users demanding
>> better Windows support.  Search the list, there's almost no one asking
>> questions about Windows and considering that it's missing a ton of features
>> and constantly broken, that strongly suggests that no one is actually using
>> it.
>
> Or maybe, real users don't use the git repository, so they aren't aware of
> the constant breakage.
>
>> Windows support in QEMU is an academic exercise that's only of interest to
>> developers.
>
> I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in qemu
> that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is it useful
> for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial work
> needs something faster than tcg.

*-user can be used by developers to make specific tests with TCG more
easily and faster than with system emulation. I think someone also
used it to run Wine on PPC.