[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib
On 03/23/2011 09:58 AM, Roy Tam wrote: I think I have to change my words. Glib works in win32, but adding Glib to QEMU will bloat the binary size. It adds more dependency on building and the result binary. I wonder if it is a must to add it. That's very far from my definition of breaking. Paolo
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib
On 03/11/2011 10:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread implementation along with tons of other goodies. GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can leverage in QEMU including an object oriented programming infrastructure. Short term, it has a very nice thread pool implementation that we could leverage in something like virtio-9p. It also has a test harness implementation that this series will use. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguorialigu...@us.ibm.com This doesn't need to go in until there is use for it, which is IIRC for the QAPI tests? Paolo
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib
On 03/12/2011 02:09 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 03/11/2011 10:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread implementation along with tons of other goodies. GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can leverage in QEMU including an object oriented programming infrastructure. Short term, it has a very nice thread pool implementation that we could leverage in something like virtio-9p. It also has a test harness implementation that this series will use. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguorialigu...@us.ibm.com This doesn't need to go in until there is use for it, which is IIRC for the QAPI tests? Correct. I mistakenly thought I still used it in Error but I removed that dependency. Regards, Anthony Liguori Paolo
