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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QOM vs QAPI for QMP APIs
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>, Andreas Faerber <afaerber@suse.de>, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Am 25.02.2014 um 11:47 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> Il 25/02/2014 11:15, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> >On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> External QOM interfaces have their place, especially for debugging or
> >>> trying out things before there is a proper API, but it's not as the
> >>> primary external interface.
> >Yes, I agree.
> 
> -object is an exception to this though, isn't it?

I'd prefer if -object weren't the primary interface for anything.
We could define a few stable types that are meant to be created,
queried and manipulated using QOM, but it would blur the line.

Kevin