Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 released

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:10:54AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Well, binaries are shipped, but I guess you'd like to build from source.
>
> We have several options:
>
> - do nothing
> - ship a generated SOURCES file which contains git URLs and commit  
> hashes, rely on the interested user to fetch and build.  Also tag the  
> submodules appropriately.
> - fetch the submodules and include them in the tarball
> - build separate tarballs for the submodules
>
> Since packages are few I favour the second option, which is easiest for me.

Option three would seem to be the least work for anyone building from
source, and also how sources are normally distributed.

If it needs specific versions of those modules to work and they don't
have releases of their own you can point to, then they should probably
be included.

-- 
Len Sorensen