From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GbyrN-00085j-Oy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:24:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GbyrM-00084A-MP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:24:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbyrM-00083q-EU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:24:52 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.4] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GbyrM-000494-54 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:24:52 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] config file support Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:24:48 +0100 References: <46d6db660610230358k5f7a2bacuf81f93edc69abb82@mail.gmail.com> <453CAC26.7000700@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <453CAC26.7000700@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610231324.48927.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Monday 23 October 2006 12:48, Jan Marten Simons wrote: > In my opinion config files should _always only_ be *an alternative* to a > long command line. > > Basically you should be able to do anything with both configuration > options, be it command line or a config file (or a combination of both). Part of the motivation for wanting a config file is that it's more flexible and allows more complicated configs than just commandline options. For that reason I'd expect the commandline to only offer a subset of the features available via a config file. You can always write a wrapper script that generates a config file. Paul