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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
	aliguori@us.ibm.com, clalance@redhat.com,
	Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...'
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:00:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005131500.45447.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100513132102.GG12207@redhat.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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-13 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-12 20:29 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...' Cole Robinson
2010-05-12 20:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jes Sorensen
2010-05-12 20:48   ` Cole Robinson
2010-05-13  8:35     ` Jes Sorensen
2010-05-13 13:04       ` Cole Robinson
2010-05-13 13:07         ` Jes Sorensen
2010-05-13 13:21           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-13 13:38             ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-05-13 14:00             ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-05-13 19:20               ` Blue Swirl
2010-05-13 21:24                 ` Stuart Brady
2010-05-14 13:24           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-14 13:54             ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-14 14:22               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-14 14:42                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-14 14:52                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-14 15:02                     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-14 15:08                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-14 13:17     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-14 13:25       ` Daniel P. Berrange

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