On 09/23/22 12:14, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 09/23/22 11:54, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> (2) Should we drop Gtk2 support? I kept this around to allow virt-p2v >> to be compiled on RHEL <= 6. RHEL 5 in particular needs Gtk 2.10, >> which even for Gtk 2 is an old version. Those RHEL releases had >> support for some old hardware, especially some old HP Smart Array >> devices, which was dropped in newer RHEL, making it impossible to >> convert physical machines using those devices. >> >> However the move to PCRE2 means that we can no longer compile on RHEL 6 >> (RHEL 7 is still OK). Gtk2 itself went out of support in 2021 [0], >> although that is not very relevant. >> >> If we had a customer who wanted support for the old devices, perhaps >> it is better to look for a modern distro that still supports them and >> would have Gtk 3, PCRE 2, etc. Perhaps Fedora or Debian. > > I'll look into removing gtk2 support from virt-p2v. Can I drop "contrib/build-p2v-iso.sh" altogether? I found this script by grepping the tree for "gtk2". We no longer seem to be building the p2v ISO on RHEL (any major release), and on Fedora, I don't use this script. I propose we remove it. Thanks Laszlo _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
