Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: bump glib version to 2.16

[Markus Armbruster]

John Snow <address@hidden> writes:

> On 05/07/2015 08:22 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 10 March 2015 at 17:45, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 10 March 2015 at 17:43, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Wasn't aware we were actually going through with that; it had looked
>>>> like we were going to refrain from fiddling with it because we found
>>>> a workaround that sufficed for glib 2.12.
>>>
>>> Well, we're not doing anything before QEMU 2.3 is released.
>>> But if we bump the version requirement at all, then we might
>>> as well move it to 2.22, because once you drop the "support RHEL5"
>>> requirement then that's the newest version we can shift to without
>>> breaking compilation on some other distro we care about (SUSE, in
>>> this case).
>> 
>> So do people still want to bump the minimum glib version?
>> If we're going to do it for 2.4 I would prefer to see the
>> configure patch reasonably early in the release cycle I think.
>> 
>> -- PMM
>> 
>
> I think we determined that the minimum version could be as high as 2.22.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg00488.html

I support upgrading to a more recent version of GLib as much as ever.
Let's go for 2.22.