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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/27] slirp: make it again a standalone
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Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, QEMU <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Zhang Chen <zhangckid@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau, le ven. 18 janv. 2019 15:02:46 +0400, a ecrit:
> > may want to change the API (nobody can do something perfect at first
> > try), and when that breaks qemu build it would nasty if people couldn=
't
> > just disable libslirp usage to get qemu built for needs which don't
> > require slirp.
>=20
> Certainly, however we will be careful to keep a stable API/ABI and
> have library deprecation policies.
>=20
> Major API/ABI break / rewrite could also use a different soname.

Sure, but at least the first release of libslirp needs to be usable by
qemu with the same API as what qemu had last :)

> > Also some people would really like to see the dreaded slirp stack off
> > their qemu binaries :)
>=20
> Fortunately, that's already possible with --disable-slirp.

Alright :)

Samuel