Re: [libvirt] libvirt and the lowest common denominator

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:18:17PM -0500, John Levon wrote: 3. The Sun repository *is* the upstream for xend on Solaris for a number of reasons: a. The 3.1.x series is only maintained by us, there is no other 3.1 upstream b. The XenSource upstream does not, and cannot,

[libvirt] libvirt and the lowest common denominator

2009-02-09 Thread John Levon
I wanted to bring this topic out of a patch review thread. Dan recently stated that only patches that use upstream facilities are acceptable, meaning the xend delivered by XenSource. I'd like to make a few points on this note: 1. I'd like to hear from the other core maintainers if they agree

Re: [libvirt] libvirt and the lowest common denominator

2009-02-09 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:54:51PM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: 2. I'd like to hear a rationale for this rule. The number one rule is not to fork codebases in incompatible ways. Agreed. Thankfully, we haven't done that. Adding new features to a particular version of Xen and not making