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

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 06/29/2009 05:41 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Even though it is not a fun thing to do I think the interface should be
> written in a more formal specification language than a spec.txt or a C
> header file.
> We can even come up with our own language to do it as long as it forces
> us to maintain a robust interface and allow us to write simple scripts
> to validate the methods we use to implement the interface in our own
> language of choice.
>    

I agree.  It's really easy to screw up interfaces.  It can be a simple 
validator that runs on requests and responses, or a full fledged IDL 
compiler, but we need something.  I don't think this should block 
merging so long as it's added before 0.12.

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