[Libguestfs] Plans for libguestfs

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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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