[libvirt] [libvirt-glib 01/37] Add gvir_config_object_new_child helper

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Nov 15 11:23:59 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:15:17PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:28:34PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > The functions declaration should be put in -private.h . Marking
> > definition G_GNUC_INTERNAL would also make it more obvious.
> > 
> > It would also less confuse gir-scanner which doesn't know about libxml types.
> 
> At this point, I'm undecided whether these functions should be private or
> not. Having some way to directly manipulate the XML data can be useful when
> you want to generate some config data not yet handled by libvirt-gconfig,
> but on the other hand, it makes it really easy to shoot yourself in the
> foot.
> I'm fine with marking them private for now.

Yep, lets be conservative and make them private. If we find a compelling
case where we need them public in the future, we can easily revisit the
decision.

Daniel
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