Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2?

["Glauber Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
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>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>>> C.W. Betts wrote:
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>>>> When will qemu be given the status of 0.9.2?  I was browsing the  source
>>>> code of the Qemu that ships with OpenSuSE and noticed that  there are a lot
>>>> of patches.  It would probably be helpful if there was  a release that
>>>> didn't depend on GCC 4.
>>>>
>>>> Also, what targets still depend on dyngen?  And is anyone working on
>>>>  porting them to TCG?
>>>>
>>>
>>> A lot of previously supported hosts are no longer supported with TCG.  I
>>>  would think adding those hosts would be more important than completing  the
>>> TCG conversion before cutting a new release.
>>>
>>
>> I disagree. The most important hosts are supported, the other hosts
>> were largely experimental anyway, and getting rid of dyngen / gcc3
>> is IMHO worth a release.
>>
>
> Personally, I'd like to see much more frequent releases (every 3-6 months).
>  I'm okay with not having complete features (like the dyngen->TCG
> conversion) or host regressions because I think there's value in having
> releases regularly compared to feature based releases.
>
> What do other people think?  I'd be willing to do the leg work of releases.

I believe there's a lot of users who grab the stable releases, but
won't grab the development snapshots.
So usually releasing official releases more often means more testing happening.

I believe it's worthy.

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