[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common 0/2] Remove obsolete environment usage

[Frediano Ziglio]

> Hi

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 5:56 PM Jonathon Jongsma < jjongsma at redhat.com >
> wrote:

> > On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 16:53 +0200, Victor Toso wrote:
> 
> > > Hi,
> 
> > >
> 
> > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:47:52PM +0100, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> 
> > > > Following log discussion and Victor suggestion about removing
> 
> > > > these variable as already enough obsolete and documented
> 
> > > > proposed a patch to remove them.
> 
> > > > Mainly to get some consent and votes.
> 

> > Also note that these env variables (or at least the DEBUG_LEVEL one)
> 
> > only ever worked (partially) on spice-server, and not on spice-gtk,
> 
> > since it only enabled logging for the "Spice" domain.
> 

> > >
> 
> > > +1, it would remove good amount of changes from Marc-André first
> 
> > > patch.
> 
> > > Did not test it yet ;)
> 

> What's the plan? can we move ahead and remove those environment variables or
> delay ? until when ?

> I think those variables create more confusion than help and are mostly there
> for legacy reasons, so I vote for removing them asap.

As far as I understood somebody wants a couple of RHEL stable release which could take 2/3 years. 

Frediano 
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