From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GbDf3-0007Fx-Cn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:01:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GbDf1-0007CH-Uk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:01:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbDf1-0007CD-FM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:00:59 -0400 Received: from [64.233.182.187] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GbDf0-000690-T3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:00:59 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2415556nfa for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8a6cde920610210300ib8a0dfdi65c4baf6f7ae7ca5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:00:56 +0100 From: "Ricardo Almeida" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Config file support In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, Comments are always welcome, I guess, but since there is someone with interest to implement config files, maybe constructive comments are better :p I don't dislike the use of xml nor I think is bloat. This subject as been discuted in the list, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-01/msg00030.html , xml format has already been proposed, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-08/msg00034.html , promptly followed by key/value pair proposal... Maybe the best is writing a tool like vqemu, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-01/msg00063.html that can be easily updated to support the different file formats and see what people prefer... Regards, Ricardo Almeida On 10/21/06, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Chuck Brazie wrote: > > > What are your ideas on the syntax of the config file? Will it be XML > > based or similar to the current options? > > Oh yes! *claps his hands* XML! *gets shiny eyes* We absolutely have not > enough bloat in QEmu! You could integrate libxml2. Or even better, write > yet-another XML parser! > > And encodings! XML has automatic encodings! We got to have them. Yes, > encodings. It is international! > > And you can put blobs into an XML! Isn't that a great feature we could > use? > > The best of all, it's a Best Practice! Plus, you can write a DTD for it > and _validate_ it! Or even an _XML Schema_! > > ... > > You get the idea. > > Ciao, > Dscho > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel >