[libvirt] libvirt and python3

[Dave Allan]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:01:15AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:13:59PM -0400, Dave Allan wrote:
> > I've seen a bunch of interest in python3 [1,2,3].  Has anybody started
> > thinking about python3 bindings for libvirt?
> 
> I'm not going to do any work on it, but I have two requirements here
> 
>  - We should not end up maintaining two separate bindings. We want to
>    minimize the duplication of code to as great an extent as possible,
>    as close to zero extra overhead as possible in fact. The generator
>    will help, but there's still hand-written C code & python code that
>    we really don't want to be duplicating
> 
>  - We should be able to build both python2 & python3 at once. ie you
>    should not need to run ./configure --with-python=2|3, in order to
>    choose. We should detect both python2 & python3 at once & build
>    both if both are available.

For my $.02, ack to both of those points.

Dave