Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 19/32] qapi: Accept double-quoted strings

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/04/2017 11:41 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>
>> Sadly, the schema language is neither JSON, nor an established extension
>> of JSON, nor Python.  This commit brings the schema language one step
>> closer to a superset of JSON.  I feel "homegrown superset" is a slightly
>> less bad idea than "homegrown with large overlap".
>> 
>> Naming the schema files .json was in bad taste.
>
> Would it make sense to rename all of our files from .json to .qapi?
> Then it is obvious that we are using a homegrown syntax; and it is also
> easy enough to tweak things like .dir-locals.el to recognize that suffix
> as triggering specific formatting rules.  Git rename detection means it
> is still reasonable to blame across file renames.

I don't know.  I'm always reluctant to rename files.  Probably too
reluctant.  Opinions?