[Libguestfs] libguestfs language bindings for CentOS/RHEL 9

[Neal Gompa]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 9:00 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 08:46:06AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > Hey Richard,
> >
> > I'm looking to use the libguestfs Python, PHP, and Go bindings on
> > CentOS Stream 9, but it seems that these are not available right
> > now. Could they be made available in CentOS/RHEL 9, if not, what was
> > the reason for not shipping them?  I believe these are shipped in
> > Fedora today.
>
> Hi Neal, answer depends on the particular bindings.
>
> For python3-libguestfs, we have a BZ to move these back to AppStream,
> so they should be usable.  This should be done pretty soon:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019914
>
> For PHP, the bindings are currently broken upstream.  Patches
> welcome etc ...
>
>
Is there a particular report indicating what's broken upstream that I can
look at? I see that the bindings are built in Fedora against PHP 8.0 (which
RHEL 9 ships with), so I somewhat expect them to work.


> For Golang I think most people are anticipating that you'll "vendor"
> (ie. bundle) the bindings in your code.  While this is stupid, the
> language effectively forces you to do that.  A longer term plan may
> look more like what we recently did with the libnbd bindings, but
> we're not there yet.
>
> Search "golang" here:
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2021-November/thread.html
>
>
But since libguestfs dynamically generates the bindings for various
languages, is it even workable to separate it like that? You could build it
as a pile of Go binding sources and ship it that way (similar to how other
Go bindings are shipped in Fedora).


-- 
*Neal Gompa*
Senior DevOps Engineer
Datto, Inc.
www.datto.com
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