Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] audio/coreaudio.c: Fix deprecation warnings

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 1 December 2015 at 16:27, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
> All the patches applied and compiled without problem on Mac OS 10.6.8.
> I played video and mp3 files in QEMU running a Windows XP guest. They
> all played perfectly.

Cool, thanks for the testing.

> I really was against the idea of removing Mac OS 10.5 support when I
> first heard the idea. But I did think about it before saying anything.
> I personally started out building QEMU on Mac OS 10.3. But that was
> years ago. Technology has moved on. Everyone wants to run their emulator
> on the fastest hardware they have. This hardware is probably not going
> to include anything running Mac OS 10.5. Removing Mac OS 10.5 support
> might be a good idea. I don't think we would inconvenience anyone.
> The only evidence I found of someone using Mac OS 10.5 to build QEMU
> was from 2012.

Yep. I actually would be happy retaining the 10.5 support even
for a single user, provided that that user was interacting with
us on qemu-devel and testing that our code still builds on their
setup and so on. That's why I propose to announce the deprecation
in the release notes, so if such a person exists they can come and
talk to us about it.

> We are only removing support for Mac OS 10.5 because of a warning
> message that appears during compilation. We could just disable
> warnings for that file. But the depreciated audio functions might
> not be around in the future, so probably better to say goodbye to
> them now before they cause real problems.

Note that this patch set does *not* drop 10.5 support -- the 10.5
versions of the functions are all present so in theory it should
build fine there. The only problem is that (as usual) nobody
is actually testing that it really does compile on 10.5.

thanks
-- PMM