From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IRDk5-0008OS-Jm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:09:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IRDk2-0008IY-SN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:09:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRDk2-0008IP-Od for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:09:22 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRDk2-0005ym-7j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:09:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:09:13 +0100 (BST) From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] =?iso-8859-1?q?R=E9f=2E_=3A_Re=3A_=5Bkvm-devel=5D_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BPATCH=5D=5BRFC=5D_Allowing_QEMU?= to directly executeadirectory (and storing command line options in it) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: laurent.vivier@bull.net Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jorge =?iso-8859-1?Q?Luc=E1ngeli_Obes?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, laurent.vivier@bull.net wrote: > I think passing only the directory name is better because it can be like > a "black box" : the user don't have to know how it is inside. I consider this a super downside. "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it [your software]." > And it is much more simple to use "qemu my_pc" than "qemu -c > my_pc/config". _Much_ more simple? Not really. Having said that, it should not be a big problem to change the source just for _you_, so that if "my_pc" could not be opened, it automatically tries "my_pc/config". Trivial. Ciao, Dscho