Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 5 September 2010 19:33, malc <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>>  On 09/05/2010 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> > On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> > > > As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic nightly
>> > > > Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might give more
>> > > > users a chance of detecting runtime faults during the development 
>> > > > cycle.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > That's doable and useful, yes.
>> >
>> > I doubt it's useful.
>> >
>> > We don't have a massive pool of developers sitting on their hands waiting
>> > for something else to work on.  We don't have myriads of users demanding
>> > better Windows support.  Search the list, there's almost no one asking
>> > questions about Windows and considering that it's missing a ton of features
>> > and constantly broken, that strongly suggests that no one is actually using
>> > it.
>>
>> Or maybe, real users don't use the git repository, so they aren't aware of 
>> the
>> constant breakage.
>>
>> > Windows support in QEMU is an academic exercise that's only of interest to
>> > developers.
>>
>> I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in qemu
>> that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is it useful
>> for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial work
>> needs something faster than tcg.
>
> Riiight.. Here's a story, my work duties required me to fiddled with

More examples of industrial use are Nokia and Palm using OpenEmbedded
building firmware for their phones, which afaik I relies for some
parts on qemu (just some parts, so the tcg performance doesn't impact
overall performance that much).  There are many more users of OE, but
these two have products in shops near me.

Cheers