Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] travis: Uninstall packages before upgrade
On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 16:12 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
This OSX support is becoming more and more hairy. It's fairly
often
broken and we do nothing but compile test it (we don't even run make
check there). So we can't be really sure the compiled virsh/client
library still works there. I think it's time to have a discussion about
dropping OSX support. Do we know if we even have any consumers running
libvirt on OSX?
According to https://brew.sh/analytics/install/ there's some 20K
people with libvirt installed on their macOS machine; I think it's
fair to assume at least a fraction of them are actually using it.
Compiling on non-Linux platforms allows us to keep libvirt farily
portable, so having FreeBSD, MinGW and macOS builds running as
part of our CI setup is IMHO extremely valuable.
I consider macOS very much a "best effort" kind of deal, since
it's basically impossible to solve all but the most trivial issues
hitting it without first gaining access to proprietary platforms,
which is something that I'm personally not interested in doing.
That said, as long as we can keep it building by tweaking a couple
of lines every few months, I don't see a compelling argument for
dropping macOS support.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization