On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 08:21:55AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 05/13/2010 03:32 AM, jes.soren...@redhat.com wrote: > >From: Jes Sorensen<jes.soren...@redhat.com> > > > >Add -version-simple argument for QEMU, printing just the version > >number, without any supporting text. > > > > I'm not a huge fan of the name. > > But what information are we trying to convey? Just major/minor number > or would qemu-kvm also throw some info in there? > > Do version numbers even matter because 0.13 from qemu.git is going to be > a hell of a lot different from 0.13 in RHEL6.x.
Version numbers are the last resort. We'll try all other avenues for detecting a feature, before turning to a version number, precisely because of the variance you mention here. When we do toggle something based on a version though, we'll be conservative basing decision off upstream QEMU 0.13 functionality, ignoring what extra bits a distro might have backported (or even disabled). Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
