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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:52:24 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Michael D Roth <mdroth@us.ibm.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

On 03/12/2011 02:09 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 10:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread 
>> implementation
>> along with tons of other goodies.
>>
>> GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can 
>> leverage in
>> QEMU including an object oriented programming infrastructure.
>>
>> Short term, it has a very nice thread pool implementation that we 
>> could leverage
>> in something like virtio-9p.  It also has a test harness 
>> implementation that
>> this series will use.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>
> This doesn't need to go in until there is use for it, which is IIRC 
> for the QAPI tests?

Correct.  I mistakenly thought I still used it in Error but I removed 
that dependency.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo
>