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 ;) Christophe