On 03/11/20 17:08, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> +Short-form boolean options (since 5.2) >> +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' >> + >> +Boolean options such as ``share=on``/``share=off`` can be written >> +in short form as ``share`` and ``noshare``. This is deprecated >> +for all command-line options except ``-chardev` and ``-spice``, for >> +which the short form was in wide use. > > So IIUC, the short form was possible to use for absolutely /any/ > boolean property ?
s/boolean// (yikes) > IMHO if we're going to deprecate short forms, we should do it > universally including chardev and spice. Arguably spice/chardev > are the most important ones to give an explicit warning about > precisely because their widespread usage means a heads up is > important to users. Chardevs will probably become user-creatable objects; for -spice I was hoping that it would be QAPIfied as "-display spice" which does not support short forms, but I'm not sure if Gerd agrees. In both cases, the problem would be taken care of in a different way. I can certainly warn for all of them, but I was thinking of the lowest-impact option for 5.2 since we're already in soft freeze. Paolo
