On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 19:02, John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > That policy strikes me as weird, because RHEL7 is not going to be, in > general, using the latest and greatest QEMU. Usually stable versions of > distros stick with the versions of the programs that came out at the time. > > What's the benefit of making sure that stable platforms can continue to > run the *newest* QEMU? Is this even a reasonable restriction? If you are > running RHEL7, how many projects do you expect to be able to git clone > and build and have that work with the rest of your legacy/stable > dependencies?
The benefit is that in general people who want to build QEMU from source can do so. I don't want us to be the kind of project that needs latest-and-greatest-foo for everything to build, because that sort of project is pretty infuriating to try to work with if you're an occasional contributor. "Builds on LTS distros" is an easy-to-express way to keep things from getting out of hand. Plus a bunch of the build machines we do testing on are not running bleeding edge distros, and as Connie says plenty of developers do QEMU development on non-bleeding-edge versions (my primary dev box run an LTS Ubuntu). thanks -- PMM
