Anthony Liguori <anthony@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.