[Libvir] Question about libvirt integration into RHEL-5

[Philippe Berthault]

Daniel Veillard a écrit :
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:13:34AM +0100, Philippe Berthault wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> Currently, the libvirt integrated into RHEL-5 beta release is the pretty 
>> old 0.1.8 version.
>> Could you confirm that in the first release candidate RHEL-5 RC1 
>> (planned february, 28), the libvirt will be the 0.1.8 version or another 
>> one ?
>>     
>
>   it is 0.1.8 but with 12 patches which are backport of later bug fixes or 
> important features like localization, shareable disk support, core dump support,
> etc ...
>   I guess it's closer to 0.1.9 as a result than 0.1.8,
>   
Hum ! :-(
Currently, the version of libvirt determines its unequivocal contents. 
With a patched version of libvirt, it becomes impossible in an 
application to known the functionalities level of libvirt if the version 
number is identical to a non-patched libvirt.

Could you explain how it's possible from an application to distinguish 
between a patched libvirt and a non-patched libvirt or another patched 
version of libvirt by using the virGetVersion() function ?