Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] win32: use PRId64 instead of %lld

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 01/26/2010 07:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:58:32AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>> On 01/26/2010 06:46 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>      
>>> Yes, I agree we are comnpliant.
>>> But I also think we should be strict and reject non-JSON
>>> input just so that clients do not come to depend on it.
>>>
>>>        
>> If we can make JSON better while preserving compatibility and adhering
>> to the spec, why wouldn't we?
>>
>> For instance, at some point in time, we're going to do have to do
>> something about floating point representation.  We have the ability to
>> negotiate these capabilities at run-time.
>>      
> Even if we can negotiate extensions at the protocol level, we need to be
> careful about how we actually use them. The client is likely going to be
> using whatever standard JSON client comes with their language/environment
> and will not neccessarily have ability to change that to make use of the
> QEMU specific extension. We don't want to end up with QEMU having a nice
> JSON extension for some core feature, but none of the clients being able
> to use it in practice.
>    

Agreed.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori