Hi On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 3:09 AM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Also thinking about it: I guess we'd want to make the usage of libslirp > optional, at least because (I guess) at some points the future libslirp
There is already --disable-slirp. My upcoming patches for external libslirp honor that too. > may want to change the API (nobody can do something perfect at first > try), and when that breaks qemu build it would nasty if people couldn't > just disable libslirp usage to get qemu built for needs which don't > require slirp. Certainly, however we will be careful to keep a stable API/ABI and have library deprecation policies. Major API/ABI break / rewrite could also use a different soname. > > Also some people would really like to see the dreaded slirp stack off > their qemu binaries :) > Fortunately, that's already possible with --disable-slirp. -- Marc-André Lureau