Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt
Anthony Liguori <anthony(a)codemonkey.ws> writes:
On 03/25/2010 07:37 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/25/2010 02:33 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> From my point of view, i wouldn't want to write a high level
>>> management toolstack in C, specially
>>> since the API is well defined JSON which is easily available in
>>> all high level language out there.
>>
>>
>> There's a whole world of C based management toolstacks (CIM).
>>
>
> Gratefully I know very little about CIM, but isn't it language
> independent?
>
> The prominent open source implementation, pegasus, is written in C++.
There is also SFCB which is written in C.
But an awful lot of the providers for pegasus are written in C.
The point is, C is a lowest common denominator and it's important to
support in a proper way.
No. The lowest truly common denominator is plain text. And we got that
covered already.
A developer encountered the problem of talking a simple text protocol.
He thought "I know, I'll create a 1:1 C API for that". Now he got two
problems.