9:37 a.m.
Hi,
Is there anybody looking after the Ruby bindings? Are you still taking
patches? It seems quite out of date wrt. the current interface.
Rgs
Neil Wilson
9:56 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:37:44PM +0100, Neil Wilson wrote:
Hi,
Is there anybody looking after the Ruby bindings? Are you still taking
patches? It seems quite out of date wrt. the current interface.
There isn't any active maintainer for them, so any volunteers to submit
patches, or become a regular maintainer are welcome :)
Daniel
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10:01 a.m.
On 06/30/10 - 03:56:31PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:37:44PM +0100, Neil Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there anybody looking after the Ruby bindings? Are you still taking
> patches? It seems quite out of date wrt. the current interface.
There isn't any active maintainer for them, so any volunteers to submit
patches, or become a regular maintainer are welcome :)
Actually, not quite true. David Lutterkort and I decided to transfer
ownership of them over to me. I've done most of the work to update the
bindings to the latest; I'm still testing out a last few things, and I'll make
an announcement in the next week or so with the new version of the bindings.
--
Chris Lalancette
10:21 a.m.
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:56 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
There isn't any active maintainer for them, so any volunteers to
submit
patches, or become a regular maintainer are welcome :)
Shifting the archive across to git would help!
What do you use to auto-generate the python interface? I was wondering
whether a similar approach could be used to generate a Ruby interface
via the Foreign Function Interface library (FFI -
http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi/)
Somebody has created an example by hand at
http://github.com/scalaxy/ruby-libvirt but that seems like a lot of work
to maintain.
Anyway for a start I've pushed the current mercurial tip up to github at
http://github.com/NeilW/libvirt-ruby
Rgs
Neil
10:32 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 04:21:53PM +0100, Neil Wilson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:56 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> There isn't any active maintainer for them, so any volunteers to submit
> patches, or become a regular maintainer are welcome :)
Shifting the archive across to git would help!
Yes, it would be preferable to have them on the main libvirt GIT
server alongside all the other bindings.
Daniel
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12:01 p.m.
On 06/30/2010 11:21 AM, Neil Wilson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:56 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> There isn't any active maintainer for them, so any volunteers to submit
> patches, or become a regular maintainer are welcome :)
Shifting the archive across to git would help!
What do you use to auto-generate the python interface? I was wondering
whether a similar approach could be used to generate a Ruby interface
via the Foreign Function Interface library (FFI -
http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi/)
I looked at moving augeas over to ffi, and it was a very nice interface.
We are using JNA on the java side.. same deal.
-- bk
1:13 p.m.
On 06/30/10 - 04:21:53PM, Neil Wilson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:56 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> There isn't any active maintainer for them, so any volunteers to submit
> patches, or become a regular maintainer are welcome :)
Shifting the archive across to git would help!
What do you use to auto-generate the python interface? I was wondering
whether a similar approach could be used to generate a Ruby interface
via the Foreign Function Interface library (FFI -
http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi/)
I'm not familiar with FFI, but the current way that the python functions
are generated are with a python script that parses an XML document describing
the functions, and then generating a binding based on them. However, there
are lots of exceptions that have to be hand-coded, and every time I have to
touch that generator I come away crying. Given my experience with writing
the ruby bindings, I think it would probably be shorter (and easier to
understand) if we created the python bindings by hand.
In any case, that is mostly besides the point. I already have a git repo
setup on libvirt.org that I've pushed my experimental patches to, and I'm
in the process of solidifying this release and getting it out. I'll make
sure to CC you on the announcement once I'm confident in the bindings.
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