> Am 28.11.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>: > > Hi. I'd like to propose that QEMU drops support for OSX 10.5 hosts > (and by extension for PPC OSX hosts) starting with QEMU 2.6. > > The rationale here is basically that it's not tested at all as > far as I know -- I have been carefully retaining "only if 10.5" > ifdefs in the cocoa UI and audio code as I update it, but since > I have no 10.5 system to compile against it this support is > only theoretical and I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find > that it's actually broken. Dropping 10.5 would also allow us to drop > some ifdeffed code paths, but I wouldn't mind carrying them around if > we people were actually using them -- which I suspect nobody is! > OSX 10.5 is now over 8 years old; I think we'd have dropped it > some time ago if it wasn't the last PPC version. > > My suggested plan would be: > * in the 2.5 release notes, announce that support for OSX 10.5 and PPC > hosts is deprecated and will be removed from QEMU 2.6 unless somebody > steps forward to help with testing > * at some point probably a little before 2.6 softfreeze, remove the > now unnecessary ifdeffery > > Any disagreements? Am I wrong about nobody testing QEMU on 10.5?
I think that sounds reasonable :) Alex
