[virt-tools-list] virt-manager gtk3 branch now available
Doug Goldstein
cardoe at gentoo.org
Tue Feb 19 20:24:29 UTC 2013
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 02:12 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 02:32:36PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> [..snip..]
>>>> merge virtinst:
>>>> - no big clean up, just get it all + unit tests working
>>>> - merge history or just add code?
>>>
>>> Is there any pressing reason for this? It's great to have this as a
>>> separate python module for user in other tools/scripts.
>>> Cheers,
>>> -- Guido
>>>
>>
>> I'm going to second Guido here. I use virt-install and virt-clone A
>> LOT. Until there's similar command line or easily scriptable (e.g. a
>> few number of lines in Python to get the same behavior) API then I
>> don't see myself switching anytime soon.
>>
>
> Sorry, I should have been more clear. virt-install and virt-clone are NOT
> GOING AWAY. They will live in the virt-manager repo and and there will be zero
> change in their behavior. virt-install is forever a stable API.
>
> The change is that the backing 'virtinst' code will not be a publicly
> accessible python module, it will be code private to virt-* tools. This should
> have zero visible impact for uses of virt-*.
>
> - Cole
Ah ok. Thanks for the clarification Cole. Yes it makes sense to
combine the two, I agree.
--
Doug Goldstein
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