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. Thanks Laszlo