From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKYJ3-0008W3-84 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:23:18 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKYIx-0008U7-8p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:23:15 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40535 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKYIw-0008Tx-My for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:23:10 -0500 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:44240) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKYIw-0000a6-Jh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:23:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:23:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 released Message-ID: <20091215142308.GU760@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <4B2684EC.2040504@redhat.com> <4B27529E.6050806@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B27529E.6050806@redhat.com> From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel , Dustin Kirkland On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:10:54AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Well, binaries are shipped, but I guess you'd like to build from source. > > We have several options: > > - do nothing > - ship a generated SOURCES file which contains git URLs and commit > hashes, rely on the interested user to fetch and build. Also tag the > submodules appropriately. > - fetch the submodules and include them in the tarball > - build separate tarballs for the submodules > > Since packages are few I favour the second option, which is easiest for me. Option three would seem to be the least work for anyone building from source, and also how sources are normally distributed. If it needs specific versions of those modules to work and they don't have releases of their own you can point to, then they should probably be included. -- Len Sorensen