[Libguestfs] Plans for libguestfs

Daniel P. Berrange
2011-08-04T11:44:23Z

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 08:27:48AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:04:40AM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> > I think that there should be a /usr/sbin/update-guestfs-appliance
script
> > that may be called from postinst if the user asks via Debconf.
> >
> > Another issue has to do with the Python bindings: The
> > autoconf/automake-based build system will only build the bindings for
> > one Python version (which happens to be 2.6 at the moment). I would
like
> > to change that, but I haven't found an easy way short of
rebuilding
> > (almost) the wohle package for every Python version.
>
> I guess we only have one version of Python at a time in Fedora.

Fedora in general has both Python 2.x and 3.x availabl, and the overall
goal is for all packages which include python modules to ship a version
for each python. So if libguestfs gains support to build both 2.x and 3.x
versions of its python binding, that'd be useful for Fedora as well as
Debian.

Regards,
Daniel
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