From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] qemu-img: allow specifying image as a set of options args
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:10:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56799213.6090506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151222180755.GN10082@redhat.com>
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On 12/22/2015 11:07 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> A third option would be to keep using positional arguments, but
> add a '--source-opts' *boolean* flag to indicate how to interpret
> the positional arguments. ie without --source-opts we use the
> historic syntax, but with --source-opts, we assume the full QemuOpts
> syntax.
Oh, nice compromise. It's relatively discoverable (grep --help output),
preserves back-compat of old scripts, and offers the full power for
clients that want the full power.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-22 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-22 11:06 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Make qemu-img/qemu-nbd/qemu-io CLI more flexible Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] qom: add user_creatable_add & user_creatable_del methods Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 16:01 ` Eric Blake
2015-12-22 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] qemu-img: add support for --object command line arg Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 16:24 ` Eric Blake
2015-12-22 17:21 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] qemu-nbd: " Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 16:49 ` Eric Blake
2015-12-22 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu-io: " Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 16:55 ` Eric Blake
2015-12-22 17:24 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-23 18:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-12-23 19:25 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] qemu-io: allow specifying image as a set of options args Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 17:06 ` Eric Blake
2015-12-22 17:13 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] qemu-nbd: " Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 17:10 ` Eric Blake
2015-12-22 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] qemu-img: " Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 17:33 ` Eric Blake
2015-12-22 17:42 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 17:50 ` Eric Blake
2015-12-22 18:07 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-22 18:10 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2015-12-23 16:55 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-23 18:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-12-23 19:23 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2015-12-23 20:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-12-24 10:04 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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