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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:45:02AM -0500, Javier Guerra wrote:
> What about Lua?  (http://www.lua.org)
> 
> it started up as a configuration language, and evolved into a full
> programming language, while remaining _very_ light (less than 200K
> with all libraries), and wonderfully easy to embed into C programs.

Config files are data, not programs. Xen made this mistake originally
too just having python config files that were eval'd, but thankfully
they've defined a sensible data format now.

Dan.
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