Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] configure: keep track of Python version

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 14:41, Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> wrote:
> I see it being used by humans, so that brings a lot of subjetivity
> into the matter.  IMO this is not out of place within the build
> system, given that a lot of requirements detected by configure will
> print out their versions (GTK, nettle, spice, etc).
>
> But I'm certainly OK with dropping it if no value is perceived by
> anyone else.

I'd be happy with keeping it in the human-readable output
that configure emits: if it's the wrong format there that's
pretty harmless. But we shouldn't feed it into the makefiles
unless we really need it, and we shouldn't let the format
of whatever we do feed into the makefiles be driven by
the desire to print something human-readable in configure's
output -- there's no need for the two things to be the
exact same string.

thanks
-- PMM