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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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  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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