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From: Roy Tam <roytam@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:19:39 +0800
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

2011/3/23 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> w=
rote:
>> GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread implement=
ation
>> along with tons of other goodies.
>>
>> GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can levera=
ge 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. =A0It also has a test harness implementatio=
n that
>> this series will use.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> =A0Makefile =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0| =A0 =A02 ++
>> =A0Makefile.objs =A0 | =A0 =A02 ++
>> =A0Makefile.target | =A0 =A01 +
>> =A0configure =A0 =A0 =A0 | =A0 13 +++++++++++++
>> =A04 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> Yes, please. =A0I'd like to use glib to make simpletrace portable.
>
> To paraphrase the saying about non-trivial C programs and LISP interprete=
rs:
>
> "In every cross-platform C program there is a glib."
>
> Stefan
>
>

So, breaking win32 support again?

Roy