On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:44 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 07:09:37PM +0200, Aleksandar Markovic wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:54 PM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 16/07/2019 13.17, Aleksandar Markovic wrote: > > > > Hello, Gerd, Daniel, and others involved. > > > > > > > > I have multiple reports from end users that say that transition from > > > > SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0 was difficult, or even impossible for their hosts. > > > > In that light, they don't appreciate removing SDL 1.2 support from > > > > QEMU. The most notable example is Ubutnu 16.04, where it looks there > > > > is no way of installing SDL 2.0 that does not involve complete OS > > > > upgrade, which, for various reasons, many are not willing to do. > > > > > > What's the problem here? According to > > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libsdl2-2.0-0 the library should be > > > available there. > > > > > > > Yes, we, as developers, are good at upgrading, we like flexibility in > > our development systems, and naturally want to try latest and greatest > > tools and libraries. > > We were actually very conservative in requiring use of SDL 2. We shipped > QEMU with both SDL 1.2 & 2.0 support for many releases, and have only > dropped SDL 1.2 support *5* years after SDL 2.0 was shipped. >
Daniel, that is fine, I don't question that, I basically wanted to start a talk between us to clarify some things. Related to our situation in the field, I have a sub-question to you: Let's say there is a build system with SDL 1.2, and not SDL 2.0. Should QEMU refuse to build? Yours, Aleksandar