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Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post about deprecation of o
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post about deprecation of old interfaces and features |
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:10:38 +0200 |
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On 25/07/2017 13:07, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The list of deprecated interfaces/features in the wiki should be pretty
> complete now, so it is now time to draw some more public attention to our
> plans of removing certain interfaces/features in future releases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> ---
> _posts/2017-07-25-deprecation.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 _posts/2017-07-25-deprecation.md
>
> diff --git a/_posts/2017-07-25-deprecation.md
> b/_posts/2017-07-25-deprecation.md
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b5eaf0b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/_posts/2017-07-25-deprecation.md
> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
> +---
> +layout: post
> +title: "Deprecation of old parameters and features"
> +date: 2017-07-25 9:00:00 +0200
> +author: Thomas Huth
> +categories: [features, 'web site']
Maybe s/web site/wiki/?
> +---
> +QEMU has a lot of interfaces (like command line options or HMP commands) and
> +old features (like certain devices) which are considered as deprecated
> +since other more generic or better interfaces/features have been established
> +instead. While the QEMU developers are generally trying to keep each QEMU
> +release compatible with the previous ones, the old legacy sometimes gets into
> +the way when developing new code and/or causes quite some burden of
> maintaining
> +it.
> +
> +Thus we are currently considering to get rid of some of the old interfaces
> +and features in a future release and have started to collect a list of such
> +old items in our Wiki on a
> +[page about removing legacy
> parts](http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LegacyRemoval).
> +If you are running QEMU directly, please have a look at this page to see
> +whether you are still using one of these old interfaces or features, so you
> +can adapt your setup to use the new interfaces or features instead. Or if
> +you rather think that one of the legacy interfaces/features should *not* be
> +removed from QEMU at all, please speak up on the
> +[qemu-devel mailing list](http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/MailingLists)
> +to explain why the interface or feature is still required.
This text looks good.
However, we should first finalize Daniel's patches and update the wiki
to match the newly-instated policy. The blog post might also include
the text that is added to the manual.
Thanks,
Paolo