On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 07:58:46AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > biosbits isn't tied to QEMU versions, it is an entirely separate 3rd > party project. This binary is just providing the test env, and IIUC, > control over what executes in this env is still done by the QEMU side > test scripts. I'm not seeing a coupling here that requires precise > matching. In any case biosbit is a dead project so does not look > likely to have any changes. > > If we did want to have different versions though, we can stil > publish artifacts from different branches of biosbits code. Gitlab > will preserve & publish the latest artifacts from each branch in > parallel. > > With regards, > Daniel
The issue is bugs, testing, support. If biosbits needs to support old qemu versions that's a ton of work for no real benefit. CI is CI, it's not a binary distribution mechanism, abusing it will just lead to problems down the road... my $.02 -- MST
