From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35435) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dp8qW-0002aP-Am for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 04:04:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dp8qM-0007IH-SH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 04:04:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39666) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dp8qM-0007HP-Lp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 04:04:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 09:04:18 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20170905080418.GA311@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" References: <1504545540-8002-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Drop AIX host support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thomas Huth Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, patches@linaro.org, Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Laurent Vivier On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 08:09:17PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 04.09.2017 19:19, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Nobody has mentioned AIX host support on the mailing list for years, > > and we have no test systems for it so it is most likely broken. > > We've advertised in configure for two releases now that we plan > > to drop support for this host OS, and have had no complaints. > > We just added this some weeks ago to our qemu-doc.texi: > > "Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how long > features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor any documented > list of which features were deprecated. Thus any features deprecated > prior to 2.10.0 will be treated as if they were first deprecated in the > 2.10.0 release." > > Should we maybe wait two more releases (for version 3.0 ;-)) 'till we > remove it? The deprecation policy is for features which currently work and which we expect to have actual users. Neither is the case with AIX support, so I don't see any reason to keep it longer. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|