On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 14:54 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 08:50:12AM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 10:26 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 04:15:13PM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, there was no single-header include for the GTK+ library > > > > until just recently (spice-client-gtk.h), so this requires bumping the > > > > spice-gtk version requirement to a unreleased git version. > > > > > > IIUC this is going to prevent virt-viewer being built against existing > > > released of spice. I think this is a rather unpleasant API break for > > > SPICE to force on client programs. > > > > > > I would really expect there to be several releases where SPICE provided > > > the new single-header that apps could use, while *also* allowing apps > > > to continue to include the more specific headers. ie, give apps some > > > grace time to switch over to the new style. Can you try and re-visit > > > this in SPICE first. > > > > Actually, the only changes I have pushed to spice are those that: > > > > - add this new spice-client-gtk.h master header > > - produce a compiler #warning when including one of the sub-headers > > > > So, at the moment, it is still possible to build virt-viewer against > > both released and unreleased (git master) spice-gtk. In the latter case, > > we'll just get compile warnings. This patch adds a dependency on git > > master to try to avoid those warnings. But we can delay this patch and > > simply live with the warnings for a little while if that's what people > > prefer. > > My general desire is that virt-viewer *always* be capable of building > against the most recent Fedora stable branch, because when I build > release binaries (eg for Win32) I don't want to be using unreleased > code or Fedora rawhide. I want to use a known good stable Fedora release > Mingw toolchain. This dependency obviously only applies to virt-viewer in git master. Are you suggesting that virt-viewer from git should always be buildable against the version of spice-gtk in fedora? Or are you talking about virt-viewer releases? As I said, I can probably delay this patch for a while if that's what people prefer, but at the moment I'm not sure I totally understand what you're requesting. Jonathon _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
