On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 09:18 +0800, Amos Kong wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:28:56AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 02/09/2011 03:50 AM, Michael Goldish wrote: > > >This is a reimplementation of the dict generator. It is much faster than the > > >current implementation and uses a very small amount of memory. Running time > > >and memory usage scale polynomially with the number of defined variants, > > >compared to exponentially in the current implementation. > > > > > >Instead of regular expressions in the filters, the following syntax is used: > > > > > >, means OR > > >.. means AND > > >. means IMMEDIATELY-FOLLOWED-BY > > > > > >Example: > > > > > >only qcow2..Fedora.14, RHEL.6..raw..boot, smp2..qcow2..migrate..ide > > > > > > > > > Is it not possible to keep the old syntax? Breaking people's > > scripts is bad. > > we only need convert the configure file, it's not too complex Yes, the benefits of the new format outnumber the inconveniences. As for my opinion on the operator, .. is sufficiently clear and expressive to do most of the stuff we need to do with configuration anyway. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
