[ovirt-devel] Ending support for 3.x engines on master

[Yaniv Dary]

What is the cost of keeping them?

Yaniv Dary
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 02:13:40PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We should not support now Engine 3.5 with ovirt 4.0, but vdsm still
> > accept 3.5 engines - I guess we forgot to disable it in 4.0.
>
> Correct. There was a moment in time where we considered supporting 3.5
> as well.
>
> >
> > In 4.1, I don't think we should support any 3.x Engine - otherwise we
> > will have to waste time maintaining old apis and infrastructure, instead
> > of adding new features that matter to our users.
>
> Do you have a list of old APIs you'd like to throw away? We've killed a
> few in 4.0, and
>   $ git grep REQUIRED_FOR
> is not huge.
>
> >
> > I suggest we disable now support for 3.x engines.
> >
> > Please see Eli patch:
> > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/59308
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> +1, but let's see if ydary/mgoldboi think we should keep 3.6.
>
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