From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZlGC-0000U2-Ct for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:15:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZlG7-0000Qm-An for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:15:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33565 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZlG7-0000Qc-0v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:15:07 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:57476) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZlG6-000077-KK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:15:06 -0500 Received: from d01relay01.pok.ibm.com (d01relay01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.233]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o0QDBM6m017125 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:11:22 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay01.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id o0QDF5Ew043586 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:15:05 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id o0QDF4HG024333 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:15:04 -0200 Message-ID: <4B5EEAD7.2020402@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:15:03 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] win32: use PRId64 instead of %lld References: <1264368221-3040-1-git-send-email-hpoussin@reactos.org> <20100125100905.GA9019@redhat.com> <20100125120348.461ce622@doriath> <20100125132719.23a483cf@doriath> <20100125153838.GB11161@redhat.com> <20100126094329.70719b6f@doriath> <4B5EE450.9090004@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100126124642.GB19036@redhat.com> <4B5EE6F8.7040502@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100126130825.GH5366@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20100126130825.GH5366@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: Markus Armbruster , Luiz Capitulino , Herve Poussineau , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" On 01/26/2010 07:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:58:32AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> On 01/26/2010 06:46 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >>> Yes, I agree we are comnpliant. >>> But I also think we should be strict and reject non-JSON >>> input just so that clients do not come to depend on it. >>> >>> >> If we can make JSON better while preserving compatibility and adhering >> to the spec, why wouldn't we? >> >> For instance, at some point in time, we're going to do have to do >> something about floating point representation. We have the ability to >> negotiate these capabilities at run-time. >> > Even if we can negotiate extensions at the protocol level, we need to be > careful about how we actually use them. The client is likely going to be > using whatever standard JSON client comes with their language/environment > and will not neccessarily have ability to change that to make use of the > QEMU specific extension. We don't want to end up with QEMU having a nice > JSON extension for some core feature, but none of the clients being able > to use it in practice. > Agreed. Regards, Anthony Liguori