[Libvir] generator.py -- why?

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:15:28AM -0400, pvetere at redhat.com wrote:
> 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?

  I would let python do that by making sure domain classes have a reference
to the connection class, then Python will manage the count by itself.

  Could you bugzilla this, so I don't forget ?

Daniel

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