From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coY0j-0005KS-W0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:12:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coY0e-0004F0-Bq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:12:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coY0e-0004EZ-4u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:12:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:12:11 +0000 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20170316161211.GY15193@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" References: <20170316154643.GT15193@redhat.com> <20170316160012.GX15193@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for deprecating unsupported host OSes & architecutures List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 04:06:35PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 16 March 2017 at 16:00, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > I'm just pretty wary of gratuitously deleting stuff that still > > has a reasonable chance of being functional, simply because > > we lack CI testing. > > Well, me too, but I think that if nobody turns up to help us > or donate a test machine despite configure yelling at them > for a release cycle or two then it's not all that gratuitous. > > (Just for instance there's some grotty code in configure that > looks at 'uname -m' to guess what host OS it is, which is > really not the right way to do it. But I've never been able > to clean that up because maybe it might break something > semi obscure in the process.) I'd just go ahead and clean it up regardless & let people report bugs, if any. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|