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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 22:20:39 +0300
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revive -version 'QEMU PC Emulator...'
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To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, clalance@redhat.com, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>

On 5/13/10, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > > But that is no different from what we have today. Users who update their
>  > > qemu and see issues with libvirt can also be asked to update libvirt. I
>  > > have already had several cases where I needed to do that anyway.
>  >
>  > The general policy of QEMU has been to try and avoid  known breakage of
>  > existing apps unless unavoidable. This change introduced 100% guarenteed
>  > breakage of every single deployment that exists today, for the sake of
>  > removing 2 characters from a string. I really don't think this is a good
>  > cost/benefit tradeoff & agree with Cole that I'd like to see this reverted
>  > for the 0.13 release, and re-considered in a later release once we've had
>  > a chance to get a preventative fix out for libvirt using -version-string
>  > or equivalent.
>
>
> For a stable release I'd agree, we shouldn't be breaking anything.
>  If combined with a version version bump I care a lot less.

Fully agree.

I think even better line would be 'QEMU System Emulator..'.