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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com
Cc: jsnow@redhat.com, stefanha@gmail.com, berrange@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, slp@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PoC: Rust binding for QAPI (qemu-ga only, for now)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:30:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33bf618f-9c0d-b34f-cc55-35f4c35e8296@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu1j8p7p.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>

On 21/09/20 11:16, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> QMP is an *external* interface.
> 
> It supports compatible evolution: we can make certain kinds of changes
> without affecting clients.  These include:
> 
> * Adding optional arguments
> 
> * Adding results
> 
> * Adding values to an enumeration type, branches to a union or
>   alternate
> 
> * Reordering members of enumerations, structs, unions
> 
> * Turning an argument type into an alternate with the old type as branch
> 
> We've made use of this extensively.  See also
> docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt section "Compatibility considerations."
> 
> How do such changes affect clients of the proposed D-Bus interface?

All this makes me think that Q{MP,OM,API} badly needs rationale
documentation.

Paolo



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-10 17:48 [PATCH] PoC: Rust binding for QAPI (qemu-ga only, for now) marcandre.lureau
2020-09-11 10:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-11 13:08   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-11 14:00     ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-11 15:17       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-29 17:55         ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-29 18:23           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30  9:15             ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-30 14:02               ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-11 10:46 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-09-11 11:03   ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-11 11:28   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-11 11:31     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-09-11 14:19     ` John Snow
2020-09-11 14:17 ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-21  9:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-21  9:30   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-09-22 14:59     ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-21 10:04   ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-22 15:09     ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-22 16:35       ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-22 17:08         ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-29  7:45           ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-29 10:14             ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-29 10:34               ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-29 11:00                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-29 11:34                   ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-30  7:34                     ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-30  7:51                       ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-30 13:14                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-22 16:52       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-09-23 11:51         ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-21 10:11   ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-22 15:37     ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-22 16:25       ` Marc-André Lureau
2020-09-24  7:31         ` Markus Armbruster

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