Re: [libvirt] ANNOUNCE: Plans for the next release

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:09:15PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 05:15:59PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to make the next libvirt-dbus release with stable APIs, > > there is a lot of them already implemented and other projects can start > > adapting to use libvirt-dbus. > > > > The release version would be 1.0.0 and currently libvirt-dbus will > > cover APIs up to libvirt-3.0.0 as a start point because that libvirt > > version is available in all downstream distributions currently > > supported by libvirt. > > > > So I would like to ask everyone to look at the APIs to check whether it > > make sense and whether something is missing or could be excluded. > > I'd suggest writing a test that parses libvirt-api.xml and validates that > your binary (or source code) contains a reference to each API, so that you > know you have full coverage, and also so that CI builds when when new APIs > are added to libvirt alerting you to close the gap. Just blacklist the > APIs you don't want to expose. There's examples of such a test in the > python, perl and go binding repos. Yes, definitely good suggestion. Actually I have it in my mind to do it, but I was waiting until we implement all APIs. But since you've mentioned it I've realized that it could be useful to do it now to in order to track what APIs are left to implement so we don't miss any.