On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 02:41:45PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
wrote:
> The answer was that magnitude of ugliness is irrelevant. Surely you
> know that this is not anything objective. To me a single #ifdef is
> ugly enough but seems it's not for you so how do you expect either of
> us to convince each other with arguments? If you really need something
> more concrete, I see at least 12 #ifdefs needed. Pretty ugly for my
> taste at least.
I'm just trying to have a discussion about something concrete. If just
one #ifdef was needed, I guess you'll bear with me if I try to convince
you to go this way, with 12 #ifdef, you've got a more understandable
standing in opposing this.
>
> > Quite
> > hard to make a decision with so few details ;)
>
> All needed "details" are avaiable and it's only a matter of taste and
> amount of care we want to give to distros. Both are subjective
> matters.
Same deal as with the amount of #ifdef needed, if only EL6 has a too old
libvirt, then you are in a much better position to convince me than if
Debian stable and latest Ubuntu (making things up) have a too old
libvirt.
Ie let's know the exact tradeoffs we are discussing here from a
technical point of view, maybe we won't have to agree to disagree and
look for a tie breaker ;)
I really don't see the point of evaluating possible but unlinkely[1]
impact on any distro. As I said, we give distros enough time and that
should be more than enough upstream could do. i-e these exact details
are irrelevant to me. Since they are very relevant to you, I'd suggest
you do the research and then let me know which solution you want and I
will implement that.
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[1] As I already mentioned already, it's very unlikely that any distro
would want to upgrade Boxes and libvirt-glib to latest version but not
want to update to even an year older libvirt.