Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Still TODO for 4.2?

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 17:49 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[Xen-devel] RFC: Still TODO for 4.2?"):
> > What are the outstanding things to do before we think we can start on
> > the 4.2 -rc's? Does anyone have a timetable in mind?
> > 
> > hypervisor:
> > 
> >       * ??? - Keir, Tim, Jan?
> > 
> > tools:
> > 
> >       * libxl stable API -- we would like 4.2 to define a stable API
> >         which downstream's can start to rely on not changing. Aspects of
> >         this are:
> 
> Relatedly, xl should have a json-based querier intended for users to
> not have to use the weird handwritten sexp printfs.

You mean for the "create -d" output? I agree and I've got such a patch
somewhere that I could polish off (and will).

I'd argue that the json output should be the default with sxp requiring
a special option, even though that break backwards compat with xm. I
have a hard time believing that the sexp printed by xl is close enough
to the xm one that people haven't already been hacking around it in
their parsers anyway...

Ian.



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