Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add -version-simple argument, printing only version number.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 08:21:55AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 03:32 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> >From: Jes Sorensen<address@hidden>
> >
> >Add -version-simple argument for QEMU, printing just the version
> >number, without any supporting text.
> >   
> 
> I'm not a huge fan of the name.
> 
> But what information are we trying to convey?  Just major/minor number 
> or would qemu-kvm also throw some info in there?
> 
> Do version numbers even matter because 0.13 from qemu.git is going to be 
> a hell of a lot different from 0.13 in RHEL6.x.

Version numbers are the last resort. We'll try all other avenues for
detecting a feature, before turning to a version number, precisely
because of the variance you mention here. When we do toggle something
based on a version though, we'll be conservative basing decision off
upstream QEMU 0.13 functionality, ignoring what extra bits a distro 
might have backported (or even disabled).

Daniel
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