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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number. |
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Fri, 14 May 2010 15:06:25 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 08:21:55AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 03:32 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> >From: Jes Sorensen<address@hidden>
> >
> >Add -version-simple argument for QEMU, printing just the version
> >number, without any supporting text.
> >
>
> I'm not a huge fan of the name.
>
> But what information are we trying to convey? Just major/minor number
> or would qemu-kvm also throw some info in there?
>
> Do version numbers even matter because 0.13 from qemu.git is going to be
> a hell of a lot different from 0.13 in RHEL6.x.
Version numbers are the last resort. We'll try all other avenues for
detecting a feature, before turning to a version number, precisely
because of the variance you mention here. When we do toggle something
based on a version though, we'll be conservative basing decision off
upstream QEMU 0.13 functionality, ignoring what extra bits a distro
might have backported (or even disabled).
Daniel
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number., (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number., Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number., Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number., Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number., Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number., Markus Armbruster, 2010/05/14
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number., Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/14