On 09/23/22 14:36, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
On 09/23/22 12:14, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 09/23/22 11:54, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> (2) Should we drop Gtk2 support? I kept this around to allow virt-p2v
>> to be compiled on RHEL <= 6. RHEL 5 in particular needs Gtk 2.10,
>> which even for Gtk 2 is an old version. Those RHEL releases had
>> support for some old hardware, especially some old HP Smart Array
>> devices, which was dropped in newer RHEL, making it impossible to
>> convert physical machines using those devices.
>>
>> However the move to PCRE2 means that we can no longer compile on RHEL 6
>> (RHEL 7 is still OK). Gtk2 itself went out of support in 2021 [0],
>> although that is not very relevant.
>>
>> If we had a customer who wanted support for the old devices, perhaps
>> it is better to look for a modern distro that still supports them and
>> would have Gtk 3, PCRE 2, etc. Perhaps Fedora or Debian.
>
> I'll look into removing gtk2 support from virt-p2v.
Can I drop "contrib/build-p2v-iso.sh" altogether?
I found this script by grepping the tree for "gtk2". We no longer seem
to be building the p2v ISO on RHEL (any major release), and on Fedora, I
don't use this script. I propose we remove it.
... For that matter, the entire contrib/ subdir appears obsolete.
Laszlo