[Libvir] OCaml libvirt 0.4.0.2 released

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:46:07PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> This is an experimental release of the OCaml libvirt bindings and tools. 
>>  The main changes are that we have moved to automatically generating as 
>> many of the C bindings as possible, and this includes experimental 
>> support for the libvirt storage API.
> 
> How are you doing the auto-generating ? In particular is its  API coverage
> better, or worse than the coverage of the python binding auto-generator ?
> We have an increasing number of APIs that we're having to write manually
> for python which is kinda annoying - the generator makes the easy stuff
> easy, but the hard stuff harder IMHO.

The situation is pretty much the same in OCaml.  31 functions are 
written manually, 99 are autogenerated.  The generator is a smallish 
Perl script which handles the easy / common code only, and punts on any 
hard / one-off bindings.

$ make autostatus
Functions which have manual bindings:    31
Functions which have automatic bindings: 99
LOC in manual bindings:    821
LOC in automatic bindings: 2951

The good thing is that we were able to autogenerate all but four of the 
bindings in the storage & jobs API (the ones we had to do by hand were: 
3 '*GetInfo' functions, and virConnectDiscoverStoragePools).

Rich.

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