[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-manager] Convert to use GTK3 and GObject Introspection bindings

[Cole Robinson]

On 05/18/2012 11:41 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:24:56PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> Still todo
>>
>>  - Rip out all DBus stuff & make vmmEngine class inherit GtkApplication
>>    which provides unique support & DBus method handling
>>  - Switch to use LibvirtGConfig & LibvirtGObject for libvirt interaction
>>  - Possibly switch to Python 3 too ?
>>  - Figure out why GNOME keyring is missing Introspection support
>>
>> My suggestion is that the standalone GIT repo for virt-install
>> only live on as a support branch for legacy platforms.
>>
>> A stable-0.9 branch of virt-manager can be kept for legacy PyGtk2
>> based virt-manager releases.
>>
>> The virt-manager master branch should exclusively use GObject
>> inspection and ideally Python3 and contain both the virt-manager
>> and virt-install codebases in one since they are intimately
>> related to each other & using separate GIT repos has needlessly
>> complicated life for everyone.
> 
> I have now done alot more work on this all, including merging the
> virtinst code.
> 
> The source code layout is now thus:
> 
>  * All the python programs:
> 
>   src/virt-manager.in
>   src/virt-manager-tui.in
>   src/virt-install
>   src/virt-image
>   src/virt-clone
>   src/virt-convert
> 
>  * What used to be the virtinst/ APIs
> 
>    src/virtManager/installer/*.py
> 
>  * What used to be the virtconv APIs
> 
>    src/virtManager/convertor/*.py
> 
>  * What used to be the virtManagerTui APIs
> 
>    src/virtManager/newt/*.py
> 
>  * Any API which uses the Gtk library
> 
>    src/virtManager/gtk/*.py
> 
>  * Remaining code shared between GTK & Newt UIs
> 
>    src/virtManager/*.py
> 
> The test suite from virtinst is in tests/ as before.
> 
> Due to splicing the history of python-virtinst into the virt-manager
> GIT repository, it isn't practical to git send-email this patch
> series (unless you want to receive an email flood with every single
> previous virtinst commit :-). So I have prepared a branch with the
> code
> 
>   https://gitorious.org/~berrange/virt-tools/virt-manager-staging/commits/gobject
> 
> In terms of RPMS we get:
> 
>   virt-manager     - The GTK frontend & virtManager.gtk modules
>   virt-manager-tui - The Newt frontend & virtManger.newt modules
>   virt-manager-common - virtManager.installer, virtManager.convertor
>                         and virtManager modules. Also PO files
>   virt-install     - The text based scripts (obsoletes/provides python-virtinst)
> 

Wow, thanks a bunch, this is awesome. I haven't really looked at the code but
that plan sounds great.

I'm going to shoot for integrating later this or next week, once I wrap my
head around the whole thing.

Thanks,
Cole