Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

[Avi K. <av...@qu...>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> That's very nearly YAML format[1], which is attractive because parsers
> are available in every major programming language, and it is still
> pretty human friendly.
>
> So my preference would be to go with the last option and make sure
> it really is YAML compliant so people can use standard tools for 
> generating and parsing the format.
>   

Using a standard format has the added benefit that things like quoting 
are taken care of.

Filenames with leading and trailing spaces, anyone?  Embedded control 
characters?

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