Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] ssh: switch from libssh2 to libssh

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 13.06.2019 um 21:41 hat Stefan Weil geschrieben:
> On 12.06.19 15:27, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > Cc'ing Alex (Docker, Travis) and Stefan (MinGW)
> [...]
> > Note, libssh is not available on MinGW.
> 
> Nor is it available for Mingw64:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=mingw64-x86_64-libssh&arch=x86_64
> 
> That makes building for Windows more difficult because there is an
> additional dependency which must be built from source.

How many people do actually use the ssh block driver on Windows, though?
Isn't just building QEMU without it a quite reasonable option, too?

I wouldn't consider this a strong argument why we should keep using an
obsolete library.

Kevin