Re: [libvirt] Language consolidation (Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] storage backend support matrix)

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:03:33PM +0000, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: > Hello, > > Here is an updated version of the previous Storage backend support matrix in the doc. > As discussed with Michal, the matrix is now part of hvsupport.html with a > paragraph and link from storage.html. > > This has now been turned into a series to fix the links in TOC of the storage > page > > Cédric Bosdonnat (2): > Fix hvsupport toc > Generate status of the backend implementation in hvsupport.html > > .gitignore | 1 + > docs/Makefile.am | 12 +++++-- > docs/apibuild.py | 2 ++ > docs/hvsupport.pl | 4 ++- > docs/storage.html.in | 13 ++++++++ > docs/storagebackendstatus.py | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I can't really say I'm a fan of implementing this via a second python script, as opposed to just putting the logic into the existing hvsupport.pl script directly. I can totally understand though if the idea of writing Perl code was not appealing :-) FWIW, as the person responsible for much of the Perl code in libvirt, I think we should make it an explicit TODO item to convert all our Perl code into Python 3 code.

Given that we're likely to incorporate some new languages like Rust and/or Go code in libvirt, we definitely want to try to cull some

other languages we use. Perl is the obvious one. The autotools mix of autoconf/shell/m4/make languages are the other clear candidates, to replace with meson's domain specific language.