Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/9] qapi: New special feature flag "unstable"

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 09:37:29AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 25.10.2021 um 07:25 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:

[...]

> > This commit updates documentation and prepares tests.  The next commit
> > updates the QAPI schema.  The remaining patches update the QAPI
> > generator and wire up -compat policy checking.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> 
> Obviously, replacing the old convention gets rid of the old drawbacks,
> but adds a new one: While using x- makes it very obvious for a human
> user that this is an unstable feature, a feature flag in the schema will
> almost certainly go unnoticed in manual use.

FWIW, I wondered about it too, as I like the visual reminder of the "x-"
prefix.  Then I thought, "how many people besides QEMU and related
tooling developers -- who would read QAPI docs anyway :) -- launch
experimental QEMU commands manually?"  Maybe that's too big of a leap.

-- 
/kashyap