Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: document that C & Python are the preferred languages

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:15:04PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:30:27PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: >> (BTW, what does the removal of perl from libvirt say about continued >> use of perl for libvirt-tck? There are a lot of useful tests in there >> that find real bugs, but they tend to languish (both in use and in >> enhancements) because nobody wants to do anything with perl (or with >> the big shell scripts that do the nwfilter testing). It would be nice >> if the tests were all in a language that was more accessible, but >> they're kind of married to the perl TAP module (and besides, who >> wants to spend time rewriting a bunch of test scripts when they >> already work?). This is mostly a moot point, because I think hardly >> anyone runs the libvirt-tck tests anymore, which is too bad because >> it has historically caught some regressions that no other testing >> framework did.) > > I believe they are run by the Red Hat virt QE team, as I ave > got bug reports against the Perl libvirt bindings, where the > reproducer is a TCK script.