Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for deprecating unsupported host OSes & architecutures

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 04:06:35PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 16 March 2017 at 16:00, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm just pretty wary of gratuitously deleting stuff that still
> > has a reasonable chance of being functional, simply because
> > we lack CI testing.
> 
> Well, me too, but I think that if nobody turns up to help us
> or donate a test machine despite configure yelling at them
> for a release cycle or two then it's not all that gratuitous.
> 
> (Just for instance there's some grotty code in configure that
> looks at 'uname -m' to guess what host OS it is, which is
> really not the right way to do it. But I've never been able
> to clean that up because maybe it might break something
> semi obscure in the process.)

I'd just go ahead and clean it up regardless & let people report bugs, if
any.

Regards,
Daniel
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