From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1canmT-0001im-DE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:12:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1canmS-0004Fr-DM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:12:49 -0500 From: Markus Armbruster References: <87bmukmlau.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20170206132321.GB11987@noname.redhat.com> <877f53l4a5.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:12:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Mon, 6 Feb 2017 18:38:43 +0100") Message-ID: <87r33bfaso.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Non-flat command line option argument syntax List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org Paolo Bonzini writes: > On 06/02/2017 16:36, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Example: QOM properties and object-add, qom-set, qom-get >> >> QOM properties are created at run-time. They cannot be fixed at >> compile-time *by design*. I always hated that part of the design, but I >> was assured we absolutely need that much rope^Wflexibility. > > QOM now supports class properties. We can convert the wide majority of > them, including qdev's "static" properties, to class properties. Won't help object-add as long as dynamic properties remain. I'd welcome such a conversion anyway.