Hi. I'd like to propose that QEMU drops support for OSX 10.5 hosts (and by extension for PPC OSX hosts) starting with QEMU 2.6.
The rationale here is basically that it's not tested at all as far as I know -- I have been carefully retaining "only if 10.5" ifdefs in the cocoa UI and audio code as I update it, but since I have no 10.5 system to compile against it this support is only theoretical and I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find that it's actually broken. Dropping 10.5 would also allow us to drop some ifdeffed code paths, but I wouldn't mind carrying them around if we people were actually using them -- which I suspect nobody is! OSX 10.5 is now over 8 years old; I think we'd have dropped it some time ago if it wasn't the last PPC version. My suggested plan would be: * in the 2.5 release notes, announce that support for OSX 10.5 and PPC hosts is deprecated and will be removed from QEMU 2.6 unless somebody steps forward to help with testing * at some point probably a little before 2.6 softfreeze, remove the now unnecessary ifdeffery Any disagreements? Am I wrong about nobody testing QEMU on 10.5? thanks -- PMM
