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Re: [Xen-devel] a last comment on xml-rpc

To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] a last comment on xml-rpc
From: Matt Sottile <matt@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:52:01 -0700
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxx>
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I don't think that's fair at all. I've written the C code to interface with Xend using S-Expression/HTTP and it's painful (see libvirt).
S-expressions transported over a hypertext transfer protocol?  Python  
inside a virtualization daemon?  RPC for interprocess  
communications?  There is definitely a very "different" mindset  
behind the design decisions going on in xen, and it's being disguised  
as "code reduction".  I thought it was accepted a long time ago that  
the SLOC metric for simplicity and quality of design was about as  
useful as measuring the monetary value of a lump of gold by how it  
smells.
Can someone please stop sucking me into these dead end discussions  
about bad engineering in action?  (Stop adding me to CC: lines  
please).  I'm not on the mailing list, I don't use xen, and really  
could care less which way that project chooses to go.
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Matthew Sottile (matt@xxxxxxxx)
Advanced Computing Laboratory (CCS-1)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Phone: (505)665-6057
Web: http://ddma.lanl.gov/~matt/




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