Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Introduce specification file

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Writing parsers and emitters should be a required part of writing a 
> qemu control program?

That's what libraries are for.  The thing that you still haven't 
addressed with JSON, is that there isn't a huge community of JSON 
parsers out there.  The only json library available in Fedora 10 for C 
appears to be json-glib which carries a GObject dependency.  Practically 
speaking, if we did use JSON, we would have to provide our own parser 
library.

> > I will commit a patch series that meets these goals.
>
> We have six months so you'll commit some unreviewed patches now?

Where does unreviewed come from?  Why does the emission format have to 
be perfect in order to start refactoring the monitor interfaces?  There 
is a large bit of this work effort that has nothing to do with output 
format.  I don't want to block that work effort.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori