[virt-tools-list] RFC: time for a 5.0 release ?

[Pavel Grunt]

On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 12:59 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:17:23PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 04:05:32PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 04:26:29PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@
> > > > redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > The 4.0 release was in June, and there have not been very
> > > > > many changes
> > > > > since then, but there are a couple of significant ones
> > > > > 
> > > > >  - Fix resizing of windows when using CSDs (relevant for
> > > > > Wayland)
> > > > >  - Fix virt-viewer not exiting on broken connection to guest
> > > > > 
> > > > > If we do a new release we can also pull in the nasty Win32
> > > > > redraw
> > > > > bug that plagued 4.0. Of course we could do a new MSI build
> > > > > v4.1
> > > > > as an alternative.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm completely in favor of a new release.
> > > > 
> > > > Pavel was looking forward for a libusb* release at some point,
> > > > so we
> > > > could enable USB Redirection support in the Windows builds.
> > > > 
> > > > *: libusb released the -rc6 on October 1st. Would worth to
> > > > talk to
> > > > them and see what are their plan before running our release.
> > > 
> > > I want to do the Windows build against Fedora 25, so given the
> > > current
> > > GTK bug pointed out, we'll have to wait a little anyways. So
> > > lets look
> > > again in a week or two and hopefully we'll have fixed gtk +
> > > libusb.
> > 
> > So can you confirm everything is ready todo a new virt-viewer
> > release
> > on current Fedora 25 with updates applied. ie as the libusb stuff
> > ready
> > and is the GTK bug fixed ?
> 
> F25 has glib 2.50.1 which has the bug fix we need for win32.
> 
> The mingw32-libusbx version is 1.0.21 and I'm unclear if that is the
> version Fabiano/Pavel want for USB redirection in windows ?

It is, also is needed:
mingw*-spice-gtk3-0.33-3 - it contains some usb related fixes

Pavel

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel