Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

[Vincent Hanquez]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:59:22PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > From my point of view, i wouldn't want to write a high level management 
> > toolstack in C, specially
> > since the API is well defined JSON which is easily available in all high 
> > level language out there.
> 
> It was pretty straightforward for libvirt to talk to the JSON protocol
> from C using the YAJL  library, so I don't think it is all that much of 
> a barrier for low level languages like C either.

note, that it's not the talking JSON part that's difficult to do in C (it's
just midly annoying compare to a highlevel language), but all the other part of
a toolstack. Since there's no performance requirements, writing in C is just a
bit of a waste ot time, but that's up to the developpers to choose the tools he
wants, even if it's not the most appropriate one ;)

> If we want to make life easy for app/library developers working against QEMU,
> then the far more important aspect is to guarentee stability of all the QEMU
> interfaces since that is where all the serious pain occurs over time.

if you're talking about the QMP interface then I agree with you. This need to
be back/forward compatible as much as possible and stable.

the other interface (i.e. the user monitor) has no business beeing
backward-compatible though, since it should never be used to talk a RPC.

-- 
Vincent