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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, laurent.vivier@bull.net,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Réf. : Re:  [PATCH][RFC] Allowing QEMU to directly executeadirectory (and storing command line options in it)
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:22:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D975A8.6020002@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708312206120.28586@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>   
>> I think passing only the directory name is better because it can be like 
>> a "black box" : the user don't have to know how it is inside.
>>     
>
> I consider this a super downside.
>
> "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it [your 
> software]."
>   

I don't consider myself an idiot, yet I get annoyed when software forces 
me to learn its implementation details.


-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-01 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31 20:13 [Qemu-devel] Réf. : Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Allowing QEMU to directly executeadirectory (and storing command line options in it) laurent.vivier
2007-08-31 21:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-01 14:22   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-09-01 22:59     ` [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Réf. : " Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-01  0:19 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Réf. : Re: [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2007-09-01  5:44   ` Luke -Jr
2007-09-01  8:05     ` pterjan
2007-09-03  9:12   ` Laurent Vivier
2007-09-01  0:52 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Réf. : " Daniel P. Berrange

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