From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JxUIp-0006XJ-OM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JxUIn-0006SY-MQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44001 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JxUIn-0006SK-G7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:53 -0400 Received: from cp-out9.libero.it ([212.52.84.109]:53016) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JxUIm-0005Mj-S4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:53 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.6] (151.57.19.50) by cp-out9.libero.it (8.5.014) id 482C2181005D6851 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 23:50:50 +0200 Message-ID: <482F5302.2050201@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 23:49:54 +0200 From: Luca Barbato MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file 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> <482B1363.6000703@bellard.org> In-Reply-To: <482B1363.6000703@bellard.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Fabrice Bellard wrote: > What is sure is that I don't wish to use a language as configuration > file. The configuration file must be seen as a serialization of > variables. It is simple to understand, can be processed automatically in > case of a GUI and its format can be easily changed. lighttpd current configuration looks like what you want even if it could be overkill already (and they are thinking about using lua since gives even more rope) lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero