[Qemu-devel] Re: [FOR 0.12 PATCH 18/18] QMP: add human-readable description to error response

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/08/2009 01:11 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>   Not to mention that those strings can't be modified when the protocol
> becomes stable and we're probably talking about dozens if not a hundred
> of strings.

I would say that there is _explicitly no promise_ of keeping these 
stable.  You can serve

HTTP/1.1 302 You have bad taste in music
Location: http://www.britneyspears.com/

and clients will not complain.  It's the same for QMP and desc.

(Disclaimer: I haven't read the entire series from Markus).

Paolo