[virt-tools-list] [virt-viewer v2 1/2] Remove nsis installer

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Mon May 2 12:46:04 UTC 2016


On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 02:32:58PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> Firstly, sorry for an empty email :-p
> 
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 05:53:04PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> >>> The only reason for us to keep maintaining the nsis installer was the
> >>> activex plugin (spicex), which requires those nsis based installers.
> >>> As the next release of RHEV/oVirt won't use the activex plugin (spicex)
> >>> let's completely remove the nsis installer from our tree and focus on
> >>> only maintain the msi installer.
> >>
> >> Maybe mention that currently ovirt/rhev is shipping virt-viewer from the
> >> 2.x branch, so it's no big deal to remove it in git master?
> 
> I'll add: "oVirt/RHEV is shipping virt-viewer based on 2.0 release
> and, if needed, they can stick to 3.0 branch in a future update, in
> case their plan goes wrong and they end up need needing nsis support."
> 
> Does it work for you?

Yes, thanks.

> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index 49ed54c..8a759c4 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ dist-hook: gen-ChangeLog gen-AUTHORS
>  # Generate the ChangeLog file (with all entries since the switch to git)
>  # and insert it into the directory we're about to use to create a tarball.
>  if OS_WIN32
> -.PHONY: gen-ChangeLog gen-AUTHORS nsis
> +.PHONY: gen-ChangeLog gen-AUTHORS msi
>  else
>  .PHONY: gen-ChangeLog gen-AUTHORS
>  endif
> @@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ gen-AUTHORS:
>         fi
> 
>  if OS_WIN32
> -.PHONY: nsis
> -nsis:
> -       make -C $(builddir)/data virt-viewer-$(VERSION).exe
> +.PHONY: msi
> +msi:
> +       make -C $(builddir)/data msi
>  endif
> 
> What do you think about squashing the patch instead of just removing
> the nsis target?

Could be a distinct patch, but why not, ack.

Christophe
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