Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Introduce hard dependency on glib

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> This series introduces a hard dependency on glib.  The initial use is portable
> threads but I see this as just the beginning.  Glib/Gobject offer many nice
> things including:
>
>  - portable threads
>  - rich data structure support
>  - INI parser
>  - JSON parser
>  - generic type system
>  - object oriented infrastructure
>  - IO library
>  - module system
>  - introspection to enable support for dynamic language bindings
>
> I see this series as the first step, followed by converting the I/O loop to
> a GMainLoop instance.  Once we're there, we can start making deeper use of
> GObjects including converting QDev to a GObject hierarchy.
>
> I've spent the past few months working on C++ integration for QEMU.  I'm more
> convinced than ever that we desperately in need of structured object oriented
> mechanisms to be successful but am pretty strongly convinced that incremental
> additional of C++ is not going to be successful.

I like this direction much more than rewriting everything in C++.  We
can replace some of the homebrew stuff with widely used glib
implementations.  We get new functionality like hash tables and
balanced trees for free.

Even just moving to a solid event loop and I/O handlers is a win.

Stefan