Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Drop AIX host support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 08:09:17PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 04.09.2017 19:19, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Nobody has mentioned AIX host support on the mailing list for years,
> > and we have no test systems for it so it is most likely broken.
> > We've advertised in configure for two releases now that we plan
> > to drop support for this host OS, and have had no complaints.
> 
> We just added this some weeks ago to our qemu-doc.texi:
> 
> "Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how long
> features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor any documented
> list of which features were deprecated. Thus any features deprecated
> prior to 2.10.0 will be treated as if they were first deprecated in the
> 2.10.0 release."
> 
> Should we maybe wait two more releases (for version 3.0 ;-)) 'till we
> remove it?

The deprecation policy is for features which currently work and which we
expect to have actual users. Neither is the case with AIX support, so I
don't see any reason to keep it longer.

Regards,
Daniel
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