Hi everybody, what will be the next version of QEMU after 2.9? Will we go for a 2.10 (as I've seen it mentioned a couple of times on the mailing list already), or do we dare to switch to 3.0 instead?
I personally dislike two-digit minor version numbers like 2.10 since the non-experienced users sometimes mix it up with 2.1 ... and there have been a couple of new cool features in the past releases that would justify a 3.0 now, too, I think. But anyway, the more important thing that keeps me concerned is: Someone once told me that we should get rid of old parameters and interfaces (like HMP commands) primarily only when we're changing to a new major version number. As you all know, QEMU has a lot of legacy options, which are likely rather confusing than helpful for the new users nowadays, e.g. things like the "-net channel" option (which is fortunately even hardly documented), but maybe also even the whole vlan/hub concept in the net code, or legacy parameters like "-usbdevice". If we switch to version 3.0, could we agree to remove at least some of them? Thomas
