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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: clalance@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, crobinso@redhat.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number.
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:54:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF0E825.2060701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BED4E73.2080802@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 05/14/10 15:21, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 03:32 AM, Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com wrote:
>> From: Jes Sorensen<Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>>
>> Add -version-simple argument for QEMU, printing just the version
>> number, without any supporting text.
> 
> I'm not a huge fan of the name.

It was the lesser evil I could come up with since -version was already
taken, but I am open to alternatives.

> But what information are we trying to convey?  Just major/minor number
> or would qemu-kvm also throw some info in there?
> 
> Do version numbers even matter because 0.13 from qemu.git is going to be
> a hell of a lot different from 0.13 in RHEL6.x.
> 
> What are the consumers of this information actually doing with it?

I think this has already been discussed, I was off on Friday so I'll
leave it to the other thread.

Cheers,
Jes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-17  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-13  8:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add -version-simple argument to QEMU Jes.Sorensen
2010-05-13  8:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number Jes.Sorensen
2010-05-13 13:33   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-13 13:41     ` Jes Sorensen
2010-05-13 19:30     ` Blue Swirl
2010-05-14  9:42     ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-14 10:06       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-14 11:24         ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-14 13:34           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-14 13:48         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-14 13:57           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-14 13:27     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-05-14 13:32       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-14 14:25       ` Markus Armbruster
2010-05-14 13:21   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-05-14 13:58     ` Chris Lalancette
2010-05-14 14:06     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-17  6:54     ` Jes Sorensen [this message]

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