[openib-general] [PATCH] osm: trivial fixes for compilation on windows

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting r. Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] osm: trivial fixes for compilation on windows
> 
> On 14:53 Mon 27 Nov     , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 
> > What I always wonder about, is why did opensm invent its own formats
> > for keeping stuff on disk? Couldn't XML or some other standard be used
> > for this purpose?
> 
> Specifically for SA DB file some db format would be better (Berkely DB
> or so) - this allows to do incremental updates rather than rewrite whole
> file.
> 
> But in general it is right question. However I don't have good answer -
> I don't know any suitable "standard" stuff for this.
> 
> And XML does not seem to be de-facto globally standard (in some areas
> it is, so if I will need to think about web interface or so, XML could
> be good option). OTOH it is harder to read and write than "plain" text
> file (for me as for user it is not big fun to edit files like
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf).
> 
> Sasha

The point is that inventing your own format means that you have to write your
own parsers and serializers, and prevents 3-d party tools from integrating
with you easily.

I would much rather have a graphical tool do manage the network than edit
some text files, and to make it possible you should use standard formats.

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MST