Re: [Qemu-devel] Just a thought (high level API)

[Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>]

Nathaniel McCallum wrote:

>I'm also curious as to your opinion on glib.  I've noticed several
>places in the code where qemu has reimplimented several things that
>would be much simpler to just use glib for (with its wide os-independant
>support).  Particularly: string functions, error reporting, main loops,
>memory allocation, etc.  As a test, I've been going through qemu-img.c
>converting it to glib.  So far I've got about 100 lines less code and
>I'm only a quarter of the way through the file.  Do you have any
>objections to a glib dependency?
>
>Nathaniel
>
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I wouldn't mind a glibc-build-time-dependency, but a runtime dependency 
would be really bad imho, as right now you can start qemu from a very 
stripped-down system just by its binary.
But I agree with Fabrice that keeping as little dependencies as possible 
is a good thing.

Jan