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([2001:b07:6468:f312:c8dd:75d4:99ab:290a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b11sm12236438wrp.60.2021.01.29.05.25.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 29 Jan 2021 05:25:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/1] QOM type names and QAPI To: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2e_Berrang=c3=a9?= , Peter Maydell References: <20210129081519.3848145-1-armbru@redhat.com> <20210129121752.GJ4001740@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:25:56 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210129121752.GJ4001740@redhat.com> Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=pbonzini@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=216.205.24.124; envelope-from=pbonzini@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -29 X-Spam_score: -3.0 X-Spam_bar: --- X-Spam_report: (-3.0 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.249, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Mark Cave-Ayland , QEMU Developers , KONRAD Frederic , Gerd Hoffmann , "Edgar E. Iglesias" , Max Reitz , Qemu-block , Juan Quintela , Andrey Smirnov , Markus Armbruster , =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= , Artyom Tarasenko , Eduardo Habkost , Alistair Francis , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Fabien Chouteau , qemu-arm , Peter Chubb , John Snow , Kevin Wolf , Jean-Christophe DUBOIS Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 29/01/21 13:17, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> On this one, my vote would be "no". "Versioned machine names >> include the QEMU version number" is pretty well entrenched, >> and requiring users to remember that when they want version 4.2 >> they need to remember some other way of writing it than "4.2" >> seems rather unfriendly. And 550 uses of '.' is a lot. > We can't make keyval_parse() accept "/" instead of ".", but can > we make it accept "/" in addition to ".", and then encourage "/" ? > > People simply wouldnt be able to use "." as keyval separator if > they're using typenames containing "." (or would have to escape > the typename. '.' is much more common than '/', and is shared by about all programming languages that have JSON-ish data structures natively. So using '/' seems decidedly worse to me. Paolo