Re: [qemu-web v2 PATCH] Update the information about the required version of macOS

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 13/09/2021 09.35, Howard Spoelstra wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 8:21 AM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com 
> <mailto:thuth@redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The versions that we specify for macOS are way too old already. Let's
>     rephrase this without specific version numbers, pointing the users
>     to the latest version instead.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com <mailto:thuth@redhat.com>>
>     ---
>       v2: Rephrased to be more in sync with docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> 
>       _download/macos.md | 6 ++++--
>       1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
>     diff --git a/_download/macos.md b/_download/macos.md
>     index 06aa811..c55438a 100644
>     --- a/_download/macos.md
>     +++ b/_download/macos.md
>     @@ -6,5 +6,7 @@ QEMU can be installed from <strong>MacPorts</strong>:
> 
>       <pre>sudo port install qemu</pre>
> 
>     -QEMU requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, but it is recommended
>     -to use Mac OS X 10.7 or later.
>     +QEMU requires the the most recent macOS version that is currently
>     available.
>     +Support for the previous version will be dropped two years after the
>     current
>     +version has been released or when Apple drops support for it, whatever
>     comes
>     +first.
>     -- 
>     2.27.0
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Nice to see this clarified.
> I guess a small typo crept in: "QEMU requires the the most recent macOS 
> version that is currently available."

Thanks, I'll drop one of the "the"s.

> Also, is this statement correct when the 2 year previous version(s) are also 
> supported?

https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/about/build-platforms.html only talks 
about "the previous major version" ... so that's a good question, what 
happens if a vendor releases multiple major versions within two years?

I guess the intention was that all previous versions are supported as long 
as the two years haven't expired yet. We might need to update the 
build-platforms text in that respect, too.

> Might I also suggest "version(s)" instead of "version"?

Unlike I've got the intention wrong, that seems to be a good, idea, yes.

  Thomas