On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:56:10AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/26/2010 06:37 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> This extension is only used internally by QEMU >>> >> Let me elaborate: when a QEMP client sends us 'a' over the wire, the >> parser rejects that as an error. At least that's what we've been >> promised when the extension was discussed. >> > > No, that's never been the case. I don't see the point. JSON allows it. > If a client comes to depend on it, so what? > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori
Then we'll have to support it forever. Asking clients to only depend on valid JSON will make sure we can use json library in the future, as well as allow easier debugging etc. -- MST
