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

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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 am just re-posting this portion of a week old email to qemu-devel from
Vincent, about C libraries for JSON, because this week he is on vacation:


> it might be missing for C, but lots of language got a maintained and used
> library nowadays. We're using it in ocaml, and i have to say we haven't 
> been disappointed using it, compared to the number of disappointments with
> xmlrpc (and mostly xml in general).
> 
> That said, I'll make a C library even if qemu doesn't end up using it.
>