Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> writes: > Am 03.09.2015 um 18:37 schrieb Markus Armbruster: >> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> writes: >>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 06:18:28PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: >>>> I had suggested exactly this looong time ago, but Anthony opposed it. I >>>> don't quite remember why... >>> >>> It is a while back now so I don't remember all aspects of the discussion >>> either. The main thing I remember is that we could not simply use the >>> existing GObject model from glib, since that exclusively records properties >>> against the object class. In some cases, particularly the relationships >>> between objects, QEMU needed to be able to define properties on the fly >>> against object instances. >> >> I remember Anthony's assertion that this is the case, but I don't >> remember the actual problems where this is actually the case. >> >> What properties do we currently define that could not be defined against >> the class? > > All child<> properties and everything on Container objects.
Apologies if you had to explain this a dozen times already, but here goes my ignorant question anyway: why can't these properties be defined against the class?
