Jorge Lucángeli Obes wrote: [snip] > When I read Avi's TODO, I basically thought about getting rid of the > long command lines I had to store in scripts. I wanted to write that > command line once, and then forgetting about it, until I needed to > change it.
Instead of inventing great and wonderfully complicated schemes, the most sensible way I can think of is to recycle a feature which is now implemented in the GNU toolchain, and apparently stems from Windows: qemu @qemu.cfg where qemu.cfg is a file which contains the command line arguments. (This is also low-maintenance, as it allows to re-use the existing parser. No need for duplicated logic.) > I wanted an image to be self-contained as much as possible. > That's what I set to achieve. Which tends to collect all the complexity in a single piece. That seems to be the common problem of the option discussed here. > All that said, I rethought Anthony's idea of storing plain text in the > image and with proper tools, it can work out. Requiring "proper tools" doesn't leave much of a point for plain text. Thiemo
