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. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
