[libvirt] [PATCH 0/7] Expose QEMU APIs to Python binding

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:44:50PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 03:18 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   yes but from that point on if you use inheritance, the fact of using
> >the qemu tainted objects instead of the normal ones disapear completely.
> >The fact of using those temporary APIs get hidden in an import and a
> >new() somewhere. I would really prefer to see something explicit at the
> >place where it is used, something that people can't miss where reading
> >the code using it.
> 
> I like the idea of making the unsupported qemu-tainted objects
> explicit at every use point rather than hidden behind the import and
> new() hundreds of lines earlier in the file; at any rate, it means
> when you later revisit the file to clean out the unsupported qemu
> direct use with newly added libvirt features, you know every line
> that needs fixing. But I'm not enough of a python coder to know if
> this is typically done anywhere else, so I don't know if my vote
> counts as a tie-breaker.

  sure, guess that between your feedback and Osier one, we should go for
the second solution,

 thanks !

Daniel

BTW it's trivial for the user to make a superset class and use that, but
    then it's a concious design decision on their part and shows up in
    their class hierarchy

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