Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: bump glib version to 2.16

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 03/10/2015 01:41 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
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> On 10 March 2015 at 17:37, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com
> <mailto:jsnow@redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     Our qtest suite relies on many functions available only in glib 2.16+.
>     Even though our base QEMU binary may only require 2.12+, it is confusing
>     to have two separate version requirements.
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>     Thus, this is an attempt to re-establish a sane baseline for the entire
>     project at 2.16+.
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> Why 2.16 rather than the 2.22 that we seem to have converged
> on in discussions on-list?
>
> -- PMM
>

Wasn't aware we were actually going through with that; it had looked 
like we were going to refrain from fiddling with it because we found a 
workaround that sufficed for glib 2.12.

2.16 is just the minimum that qtests currently actually requires.

If, however, we *are* going to shoot for 2.22, then NACK this and let's 
do that instead.

--js