From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVOBg-000723-8n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:43:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVOBb-00049H-JG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:43:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVOBb-000491-Ci for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:43:19 -0400 Message-ID: <54FF2D32.2020508@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:43:14 -0400 From: John Snow MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1426009047-25139-1-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: bump glib version to 2.16 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Paolo Bonzini , mjt@tls.msk.ru, QEMU Developers On 03/10/2015 01:41 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > On 10 March 2015 at 17:37, John Snow > wrote: > > Our qtest suite relies on many functions available only in glib 2.16+. > Even though our base QEMU binary may only require 2.12+, it is confusing > to have two separate version requirements. > > Thus, this is an attempt to re-establish a sane baseline for the entire > project at 2.16+. > > > > Why 2.16 rather than the 2.22 that we seem to have converged > on in discussions on-list? > > -- PMM > Wasn't aware we were actually going through with that; it had looked like we were going to refrain from fiddling with it because we found a workaround that sufficed for glib 2.12. 2.16 is just the minimum that qtests currently actually requires. If, however, we *are* going to shoot for 2.22, then NACK this and let's do that instead. --js