[Libvir] generator.py -- why?

[pvetere at redhat.com]

Quoting Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:53:09PM -0400, pvetere at redhat.com wrote:
>> Hi all.  So, I found a bug in the python bindings that I'd really 
>> like to fix,
>> but when I sat down to do so I quickly found myself mired in a 
>> swampy mess of
>> code generation: generator.py.
[snip]
>
>  Historic, the same generator is used by libxml2 and libxslt at least.

Ah, ok.  So, it's just a re-use of already-existing code.  That makes me feel
better.  :-)  Thanks for the background info.

>
>  Hum, right, but really even at the C level you want to keep the connection
> around as long as you manipulate the domain.
>

It sounds like you are suggesting that it might be better to add a
back-reference in the underlying C code instead instead of just the Python
code.  Did I understand you correctly?

>  Okay, this may look surprizing, but well ...
> Now we can probably add a reference back from the domain to the connection,
> but still dropping any handle to the connection is kind of weird.
>

Yeah, it's not the best use case in the world, but certainly one that is
possible, and one which I feel libvirt should probably account for.

Pete