From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsItz-0002kG-9D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:12:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsItt-0002hB-Ep for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:12:06 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46144 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsItt-0002h6-9T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:12:01 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f19.google.com ([209.85.217.19]:38138) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsItp-0002oh-KP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:12:01 -0400 Received: by gxk12 with SMTP id 12so5504070gxk.10 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5d6222a80810210811q5297c4f8x5cf221d099c4a91d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:11:49 -0200 From: "Glauber Costa" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2? In-Reply-To: <20081021145758.GA32412@game.jcrosoft.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48FDD9DD.4010906@codemonkey.ws> <20081021143834.GA29344@networkno.de> <48FDEC73.4000908@codemonkey.ws> <20081021145758.GA32412@game.jcrosoft.org> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Thiemo Seufer On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > On 09:51 Tue 21 Oct , Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Thiemo Seufer wrote: >>> Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> >>>> C.W. Betts wrote: >>>> >>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>>> >>>>> 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 agree with you I think that the kernel way of release is good and can be > used for qemu The kernel has too many -rcX , which I believe does not suit qemu well. This is because of the size of the user and developer base. The merge window is also something that we would have a hard time doing without a distribuited scm. So, kernel + adaptations is fine. -- Glauber Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."