From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:22:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080514152243.GH15783@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90eb1dc70805140745t61c01ee6w1d9478b02bce3e03@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:45:02AM -0500, Javier Guerra wrote:
> What about Lua? (http://www.lua.org)
>
> it started up as a configuration language, and evolved into a full
> programming language, while remaining _very_ light (less than 200K
> with all libraries), and wonderfully easy to embed into C programs.
Config files are data, not programs. Xen made this mistake originally
too just having python config files that were eval'd, but thankfully
they've defined a sensible data format now.
Dan.
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-13 21:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file Anthony Liguori
2008-05-13 23:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-05-13 23:20 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2008-05-14 6:35 ` Colin Adams
2008-05-14 14:41 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-14 14:52 ` Dor Laor
2008-05-14 15:02 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-05-14 15:18 ` [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-05-14 14:59 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-05-14 15:10 ` Andreas Färber
2008-05-15 14:50 ` Ian Jackson
2008-05-14 8:27 ` [Qemu-devel] " Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-14 10:31 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-14 12:26 ` Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-14 13:31 ` [kvm-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2008-05-15 8:04 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-15 11:52 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-05-15 12:04 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-15 12:16 ` Andreas Färber
2008-05-15 12:20 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-05-14 14:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-14 14:26 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-14 14:45 ` [kvm-devel] " Javier Guerra
2008-05-14 15:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-14 15:30 ` Javier Guerra
2008-05-14 15:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-14 15:42 ` Javier Guerra
2008-05-14 16:07 ` Kelly French
2008-05-15 14:59 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-14 16:01 ` Andreas Färber
2008-05-14 16:21 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-05-14 16:37 ` Andreas Färber
2008-05-14 16:29 ` Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-17 21:49 ` Luca Barbato
2008-05-14 15:22 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2008-05-14 15:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-14 15:18 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-14 16:25 ` Fabrice Bellard
2008-05-14 14:36 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-05-14 15:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-15 14:58 ` Ian Jackson
2008-05-15 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-05-15 12:36 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-05-15 13:22 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-05-15 14:46 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-05-15 15:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-15 15:26 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-15 18:50 ` Anthony Liguori
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