Re: [PATCH] PoC: Rust binding for QAPI (qemu-ga only, for now)

[John Snow]

On 9/11/20 7:28 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/09/20 12:46, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Do we actually need/want it to be in the same monolithic repo
> > as qemu, as opposed to a qemu-qapi-rust repo ?
>
> I think QAPI and qemu-ga should be separate repos altogether.  QAPI
> should be included as a submodule in both qemu and qemu-ga.  qemu-ga
> instead has absolutely no dependency on QEMU and viceversa, and is a
> prime candidate for removing all traces of the configure script and
> being a pure meson project.
>
> Paolo

I am still actively invested in moving ./scripts/qapi to ./python/qapi 
and turning it into its own installable module as I am doing with 
./python/qemu.

The benefit is that it could be used for the build system in other 
projects; or possibly new backend plugins can be developed and 
maintained separately for it.

(I am working on a JSON-SCHEMA backend.)

((Also, I want to enforce a single flake8/pylint/mypy regime for all of 
our critical Python code. Considered critical: testing infrastructure, 
anything used for the build process. This means everything in 
./python/qemu, the tracetool, and the QAPI parser.))

I have a 20-30 patch series doing the usual mypy/flake8/pylint thing to 
the QAPI parser and it will be able to stand alone in short time.

--js