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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Unmaintained QEMU builds
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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On 08/18/2010 11:46 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> I think a better question would be, should we even bother with
>>> thread wrappers?  If we drop win32 support, we can just assume
>>> pthreads and avoid a layer of indirection.
>
> The current threading code is also broken on osx and last time I
> talked to paolo, his patch should also fix things for osx.

Hm, really? :)  That's news to me. :)  But maybe I don't remember some
detail.

> So in the end it doesn't seem like a bad idea to support win32 - it's
> feature set is about the least common dominator between all OSs we
> support.  [...] And wrt vnc and threading, I'm fully in for
> deprecating the non-threaded version. Platforms that don't work with
>  threading get no VNC server.

Yeah, that was my motivation for writing the Win32 wrappers (and the
io-thread too, but that's longer-term).

Paolo