[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer 4/4] file: add version field, raise an error if incompatibily

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:55:13PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> The virt-viewer connection file can now have a version=0.5 field. If
> the virt-viewer version opening the connection doesn't provide at
> least that version, an error is raised with the version required.

What is the anticipated use case for this ?  IMHO version based checks
for user visible features are almost always the wrong thing todo,
particularly if features can be disabled at build time with configure
args. I prefer to see explicit feature checks

Daniel
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