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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU Object Model
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To: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
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On 07/21/2011 10:19 AM, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>  wrote:
> [cut]
>> And it's really not that much nicer than the C version.  The problem with
>> C++ is that even though the type system is much, much nicer, it still
>> doesn't have introspection or decorators.  These two things would be the
>> killer feature for doing the sort of things we need to do and is really
>> where most of the ugliness comes from.
>
> QT has introspection; what about using the core (i.e. QObject and moc)
> to build QEMU object model?

I don't know QT very well except that it's a very odd subset of C++ and 
custom extensions implemented by a preprocessor.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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