Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] qemu-arg: general purpose argument parser

[Eric Blake]

On 03/11/2014 08:09 AM, Leandro Dorileo wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Am 08.03.2014 um 19:47 hat Leandro Dorileo geschrieben:
>>> The following patchset introduces a general purpose argument parser and 
>>> migrates
>>> qemu-img to make use of it. qemu-img is just the first user of it, if we 
>>> see a
>>> good feedback here I move forward and migrate all the other possible users.
>>
>> I was planning to reply to this in more detail, but it doesn't look like
>> I can find the time to do so, so let me just summarise my thoughts
>> briefly.
> 
> Ok.
> 
>>
>> I do like the idea of simplifying qemu-img's argument parsing, but we
>> shouldn't make the mistake of introducing another option parsing
>> infrastructure and end up with three different coexisting models. If we
>> were to introduce a new framework, we must make sure that all code is
>> converted to it and QemuOpts can be dropped.
> 
> Agreed.

For that matter, if you want to help the current conversion efforts
going on, we are trying to get rid of QEMUOptionParameters to _just_ use
QemuOpts:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/msg01728.html


>>
>> We would probably need to add a new parser to QemuOpts that parses
>> command line options into a QemuOpts, and extend the definition of them
>> with a couple of new features that are required there (sub-QemuOpts for
>> -o, perhaps enumerations for things like --output=human/json, positional
>> parameters).
> 
> Ok.

We also need to think how to expose those improvements via the QMP
command query-command-line-arguments; lots of details in this thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/threads.html#00934

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