On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 08:09:17PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 04.09.2017 19:19, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Nobody has mentioned AIX host support on the mailing list for years, > > and we have no test systems for it so it is most likely broken. > > We've advertised in configure for two releases now that we plan > > to drop support for this host OS, and have had no complaints. > > We just added this some weeks ago to our qemu-doc.texi: > > "Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how long > features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor any documented > list of which features were deprecated. Thus any features deprecated > prior to 2.10.0 will be treated as if they were first deprecated in the > 2.10.0 release." > > Should we maybe wait two more releases (for version 3.0 ;-)) 'till we > remove it?
The deprecation policy is for features which currently work and which we expect to have actual users. Neither is the case with AIX support, so I don't see any reason to keep it longer. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
