[libvirt] [PATCHv3 00/13] Switch from yajl to Jansson

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:23:52AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 14:59 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> > Per the discussion here:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-November/msg00225.html
> > Switch from using yajl to Jansson.
> 
> I expect Peter will review this, like he did for v1 and v2; however,
> I wanted to point out that, while your series requires jansson 2.7,
> Ubuntu 14.04 only ships jansson 2.5.
> 
> While Ubuntu 14.04 is *not* a supported platform as per our recently
> formalized support policy, it's also the only Linux platform
> available on Travis CI, so dropping support for it would mean losing
> the ability to perform Travis CI builds, at least with the QEMU
> driver enabled.
> 
> Personally, I think Travis CI being limited to Ubuntu, and stuck to
> an obsolete version at that, makes it close to useless for Linux
> builds, but I know other developers (CC'd one of them ;) use it for
> smoke testing before posting patches and would probably be unhappy
> if that was no longer possible.

Indeed, and from what I see they are testing availability of "precise"
distro, to replace it. So I'd rather assume that we will be able to switch
it to more recent distro in the near future, and not aggressively rip it
out now.

Regards,
Daniel
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