Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...'

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> > But that is no different from what we have today. Users who update their
> > qemu and see issues with libvirt can also be asked to update libvirt. I
> > have already had several cases where I needed to do that anyway.
> 
> The general policy of QEMU has been to try and avoid  known breakage of
> existing apps unless unavoidable. This change introduced 100% guarenteed
> breakage of every single deployment that exists today, for the sake of
> removing 2 characters from a string. I really don't think this is a good
> cost/benefit tradeoff & agree with Cole that I'd like to see this reverted
> for the 0.13 release, and re-considered in a later release once we've had
> a chance to get a preventative fix out for libvirt using -version-string
> or equivalent.

For a stable release I'd agree, we shouldn't be breaking anything.
If combined with a version version bump I care a lot less.

Paul