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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wro=
te:
> GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread implementa=
tion
> along with tons of other goodies.
>
> GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can leverag=
e in
> QEMU including an object oriented programming infrastructure.
>
> Short term, it has a very nice thread pool implementation that we could l=
everage
> in something like virtio-9p. =A0It also has a test harness implementation=
 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.  I'd like to use glib to make simpletrace portable.

To paraphrase the saying about non-trivial C programs and LISP interpreters=
:

"In every cross-platform C program there is a glib."

Stefan