From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GcVhv-0002Tk-3n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:29:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GcVhu-0002TQ-6a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:29:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcVhu-0002TN-3P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:29:18 -0400 Received: from [71.162.243.5] (helo=grelber.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GcVhu-0003rf-3I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:29:18 -0400 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:28:43 -0400 References: <200610232129.53615.paul@codesourcery.com> <796615070.20061024031222@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <796615070.20061024031222@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610241928.44098.rob@landley.net> 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, Paul Sokolovsky Cc: Paul Brook On Monday 23 October 2006 8:12 pm, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Yes, machine config apparently would be a hierarchical structure, > with cross-references. And well, there's an industrial standard to > represent that - XML. There's an interesting sort of natural selection at work in open source. Anybody clueful enough to actually make the necessary changes to qemu to implement that idea is also clueful enough to know precisely how bad an idea it is. Rob -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery