Hello, First off, thanks for the wonderful project, and thanks even more for all of the excellent work on the Python bindings lately. I'm working on a small project to collect data on kvm hosts/guests via a python collector client and display the data in a web interface. It works beautifully when using my various distros' OS packages for libvirt-python, but I've hit a bit of a snag when trying to do automated testing. I'm quite happy to see libvirt-python packaged as a python package and on pypi, but the version there is 1.2.0, which requires libvirt >= 0.9.11. Unfortunately, I was planning to test my python app on travis-ci, which runs Ubuntu Precise (12.04 LTS), and the latest version of libvirt for that is 0.9.8 (package python-libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.13). If I were to submit a patch, would there be any interest in me backporting the setup.py/packaging work to an older version of the python bindings - say 0.9.8 - and getting it published on pypi?

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:56:46PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 07:51:00AM -0500, Jason Antman wrote: >> Hello, >> >> First off, thanks for the wonderful project, and thanks even more for >> all of the excellent work on the Python bindings lately. >> >> I'm working on a small project to collect data on kvm hosts/guests via a >> python collector client and display the data in a web interface. It >> works beautifully when using my various distros' OS packages for >> libvirt-python, but I've hit a bit of a snag when trying to do automated >> testing. I'm quite happy to see libvirt-python packaged as a python >> package and on pypi, but the version there is 1.2.0, which requires >> libvirt >= 0.9.11. >> >> Unfortunately, I was planning to test my python app on travis-ci, which >> runs Ubuntu Precise (12.04 LTS), and the latest version of libvirt for >> that is 0.9.8 (package python-libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.13). >> >> If I were to submit a patch, would there be any interest in me >> backporting the setup.py/packaging work to an older version of the >> python bindings - say 0.9.8 - and getting it published on pypi? > It is not practical to support any version older than 0.9.11. > The code generator requires that the API XML description files > be installed by libvirt and it did not do that prior to the > 0.9.11 release > > For older distros just use the libvirt-python APIs that were > bundled with that distros' version fo libvirt. BTW Canonical provide an add-on "Cloud Archive" repository for the LTS release which includes updated versions of OpenStack, QEMU/KVM and libvirt. So if you need the updated libvirt it might be an option to use that repo. Daniel