Re: cleanups with long-term benefits (was Re: [PATCH] schemas: Add vim modeline)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/08/20 10:18, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> - the single-quote strings, which are not particularly useful in QAPI schema
> Every single string in the QAPI schema uses them, though.
> 
> I have no idea why Anthony put them in the QAPI schema language.
> 
> We could remove them from the QAPI schema language.  Flag day, and
> git-blame becomes pretty much useless for a couple of years.

Is that a nack or a "whatever"?

Paolo

> Removing them from QMP would be painless for QEMU itself, but could
> upset QMP clients that (unwisely) use them.
>