From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwIrY-0001DX-SW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 11:25:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwIrW-0001BK-Rq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 11:25:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38531 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwIrW-0001B7-JF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 11:25:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56594) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwIrW-0005Mk-ER for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 11:25:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:22:43 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file Message-ID: <20080514152243.GH15783@redhat.com> References: <1210713545-11916-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <482ABF6E.6090100@qumranet.com> <482ADA80.3000309@bellard.org> <200805141526.34293.paul@codesourcery.com> <90eb1dc70805140745t61c01ee6w1d9478b02bce3e03@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <90eb1dc70805140745t61c01ee6w1d9478b02bce3e03@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Javier Guerra Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Paul Brook , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|