Ok, thank you very much for the information! So I should first try to make my library available in one of the distros used for CI. As I understand these are Alpine, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS and OpenSUSE. OK, I'll try it first :)
Regarding QAPI, I'd say it would be cool if it was allowed... I'm not sure if GPL circumvention is a real risk, because in some way it's already possible via the vhost-user protocol %). But it's up to you to decide of course :) > I'm not speaking for the QEMU project. I hope to be helpful anyway. I > am the QAPI maintainer, so my thoughts carry a bit more weight there. > > I understand your block driver depends on your libvitastor_client > library. > > Dependencies that aren't available on at least one supported build > platform (and thus covered by CI) are problematic. For Linux, > "available" generally means "provided by the distribution". I doubt > there's a way around getting your library packaged by distributions. > > The QAPI schema is (for better or worse) fixed at compile time by > design. Changing that would be a major undertaking. Whether the > benefits could justify the costs and risks seems rather doubtful to me. > > In my experience, the project invites contributions, not out-of-tree > extensions. The latter require external interfaces, which can only be > harder to maintain than internal ones. There's also the risk of abuse > to circumvent the GPL (I have absolutely no reason to assume you'd try > that!).
