[libvirt] Changing qemu's -help output

Luiz Capitulino lcapitulino at redhat.com
Wed Jul 25 19:09:00 UTC 2012


On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:02:53 +0100
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell at linaro.org> wrote:

> On 25 July 2012 20:02, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:58:02 +0100
> > Peter Maydell <peter.maydell at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> I think we should simply say "no, parsing -help is broken and wrong and it
> >> was obviously broken and wrong and we are in fact going to change the
> >> help output for QEMU 1.2, and you will need a new libvirt that can
> >> cope with that". We can't be held hostage forever to really bad decisions
> >> like that.
> >
> > We have to provide an alternative before doing that.
> 
> Try whatever it is you wanted to try, see if it barfs. Or don't use it.

Libvirt folks can answer if this is feasible (CC'ing them), I'd guess it's not.




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