[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/4] Remove some experimental features from libguestfs 1.48
Laszlo Ersek
lersek at redhat.com
Wed Mar 9 08:49:57 UTC 2022
On 03/08/22 16:57, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I think we should take the opportunity of libguestfs 1.48 to remove
> some features which are experimental, inadvisable or both. This will
> also reduce the delta between Fedora and RHEL.
>
> The commit messages outline why in my opinion it's right to remove
> each feature.
>
> This doesn't break API/ABI (as in, compiling and linking will still
> work). Of course if you were using one of these features then that
> sucks because the APIs will return errors instead of doing what you
> expected. None of our existing tools use any of these features.
>
> (I wouldn't necessarily bother with detailed reviews of each patch --
> all the tests pass and if there's something I've overlooked we can
> remove that later. It's more about do we agree on this as a general
> direction of travel.)
I've read the commit messages; everything makes sense to me. Nice line
count savings, too!
series
Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
Thanks
Laszlo
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