Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com> writes: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:56:49 +0100 > Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> While fully converted handlers are not supposed to print anything when >> running in a QMP monitor, they are free to print in a human monitor. > > I disagree. > > One of the key decisions behind the new Monitor design is that handlers > are part of common code. User printing is output-specific and should not > be done by handlers. > > One of the problems with this layer violation is that the consumer of this > data might not be what you have assumed. For example, it has been suggested > that we could move the qemu shell out of qemu in the future. In this case, > this kind of information _could_ be useful.
How do you intend to solve the problem of printing help then? The perfect is the enemy of the good. > Another important problem is that free printing like this is error-prone > as it's not at all clear what could be printed and there's no way to catch > mistakes mechanically. Not to mention that this is for sure going to used > by those who want to ignore QMP completely. This paragraph I don't get. > I'm ok with shallow conversion, provided that handler_audit() is there to > warn us about the job to be done.
