From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46936) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYglG-0008Du-Pm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 16:42:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYglD-0005Xm-Kb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 16:42:02 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-f50.google.com ([209.85.213.50]:33423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYglD-0005Xi-Gq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 16:41:59 -0400 Received: by vkbf67 with SMTP id f67so34203802vkb.0 for ; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 13:41:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9D97AF3E-9B5D-414C-84DA-A8279A8A21DF@gmail.com> References: <9D97AF3E-9B5D-414C-84DA-A8279A8A21DF@gmail.com> From: Peter Maydell Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 21:41:39 +0100 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: Add configuration file support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Programmingkid Cc: qemu-devel qemu-devel On 6 September 2015 at 21:39, Programmingkid wrote: > Having to type out all the arguments to QEMU isn't fun. That is why we need > an > easier way to setup QEMU. With a configuration file system, we just make > this > file once, and allow QEMU to do the work for us. This configuration file > system > is similar to how a shell like Bash works. This should definitely not be in the Cocoa UI frontend code. And we already have '-readconfig', so we should improve any deficiencies it has, not just add a completely separate config file system. thanks -- PMM