[libvirt] [RFC] Events API

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:14:14PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Applications could either craft their event loop impl themselves, or
> > we can provide some add-on pre-built helper libraries with common
> > impls. eg, an optional libvirt-glib library which comes with a
> > pre-built event impl for applications which use glib. Likewise a
> > libvirt-qt helper. That'd cover pretty much all common GUI apps.
> 
> Sounds sane.  avahi does the same btw, and I like that approach.

Avahi's interface is a thin wrapper arounds dbus's interface :-) And
indeed the libvirtd's event.c impl fits into Avahi's interface nicely
which demonstrates we're consistent in our thinking.

Daniel
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