[Libguestfs] [PATCH] v2v: -o rhv-upload: decouple name of nbdkit python plugin

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:08:05PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 04:41:17PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > One option I see is to export, as part of the nbdkit Python module
> > interface, the equivalent of sys.version_info: this way, the scripts
> > can detect which python version is the plugin linked with:
> 
> nbdkit >= 1.8 exports the Python version in ‘--dump-plugin’ output:
> 
> $ nbdkit python --dump-plugin
> ...
> python_version=2.7.15
> 
> And where it's available, the PEP-384 ABI version:
> 
> $ nbdkit python3 --dump-plugin
> ...
> python_version=3.7.2
> python_pep_384_abi_version=3
> 
> I will try to see if we can parse this easily ...

I started to write something along these lines and I hate it already.

However then I wondered: shouldn't all of this be ./configure options,
eg:

  ./configure --with-virt-v2v-python-interpreter=/usr/bin/python3 \
              --with-virt-v2v-nbdkit-python=python3

or something similar?

Rich.

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