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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::32c Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Eduardo Habkost , QEMU Developers , Markus Armbruster , Cleber Rosa , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu=2DDaud=C3=A9?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 19:02, John Snow wrote: > That policy strikes me as weird, because RHEL7 is not going to be, in > general, using the latest and greatest QEMU. Usually stable versions of > distros stick with the versions of the programs that came out at the time. > > What's the benefit of making sure that stable platforms can continue to > run the *newest* QEMU? Is this even a reasonable restriction? If you are > running RHEL7, how many projects do you expect to be able to git clone > and build and have that work with the rest of your legacy/stable > dependencies? The benefit is that in general people who want to build QEMU from source can do so. I don't want us to be the kind of project that needs latest-and-greatest-foo for everything to build, because that sort of project is pretty infuriating to try to work with if you're an occasional contributor. "Builds on LTS distros" is an easy-to-express way to keep things from getting out of hand. Plus a bunch of the build machines we do testing on are not running bleeding edge distros, and as Connie says plenty of developers do QEMU development on non-bleeding-edge versions (my primary dev box run an LTS Ubuntu). thanks -- PMM