xemu/scripts/qmp/qmp
John Snow 3600604667 scripts/qmp: delete 'qmp' script
This script has not seen a patch that was specifically for this script
since it was moved to this location in 2013, and I doubt it is used. It
uses "man qmp" for its help message, which does not exist. It also
presumes there is a manual page for qmp-XXX, for each defined qmp
command XXX. I don't think that's true.

The format it expects arguments in is something like:

block-dirty-bitmap-add --node=foo --name=bar

and has no capacity to support nested JSON arguments, either.

Most developers use either qmp-shell or socat (or pasting JSON directly
into qmp stdio), so this duplication and additional alternate syntax is
not helpful.

Remove it. Leave a breadcrumb script just in case, to be removed next
release cycle.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201019210430.1063390-1-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2020-10-27 11:11:06 +01:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
print('''This unmaintained and undocumented script was removed in preference
for qmp-shell. The assumption is that most users are using either
qmp-shell, socat, or pasting/piping JSON into stdio. The duplication of
facilities here is unwanted, and the divergence of syntax harmful.''',
file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)