Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/9] qapi: New special feature flag "unstable"
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 09:37:29AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 25.10.2021 um 07:25 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
[...]
> This commit updates documentation and prepares tests. The next
commit
> updates the QAPI schema. The remaining patches update the QAPI
> generator and wire up -compat policy checking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru(a)redhat.com>
Obviously, replacing the old convention gets rid of the old drawbacks,
but adds a new one: While using x- makes it very obvious for a human
user that this is an unstable feature, a feature flag in the schema will
almost certainly go unnoticed in manual use.
FWIW, I wondered about it too, as I like the visual reminder of the "x-"
prefix. Then I thought, "how many people besides QEMU and related
tooling developers -- who would read QAPI docs anyway :) -- launch
experimental QEMU commands manually?" Maybe that's too big of a leap.
--
/kashyap