[libvirt] Plans for next release

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 09:50:42PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> [adding Dan to Cc as he asked me about this right before I had to
> leave for an appointment]
> 
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:08:10PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > Sorry I nearly forgot, but we should enter freeze soon to try to
> >hit the end of the month target. I see that Martin's APIs for admin support
> >has been merged in so that would be libvirt-1.3.0.
> 
> Sorry from me too, but I planned to merge the admin API earlier so we
> can finish the design of first APIs.  Unfortunately, everything got
> prolonged and we're right before the freeze with only Open and Close
> APIs.  And because I really dislike when we create APIs that return
> "unsupported" just so we have them in, I'd be in favour for rather
> adding one useful API instead of 5 non-working ones.  The other option
> is to conditionally disable the code for Admin API just for the
> release and bump the minor version for the next release when we have
> some useful stuff in.

I'd probably vote for just disabling the build of the libvirt-admin.so
library, instead of rushing to add an API. Of course that'd make our
version number bump amuzing, but I don't particular worry about that
as honestly the numbers are fairly meaningless anyway ;-)

Regards,
Daniel
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