[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] docs: List go-libvirt in bindings

[Erik Skultety]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 09:24:19AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:48:43AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > I've came across this site [1] which refers to yet another Go
> > libvirt bindings. Add them to the list.
> > 
> > 1: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-go-qemu-and-go-libvirt/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  docs/bindings.html.in | 14 ++++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/bindings.html.in b/docs/bindings.html.in
> > index 7fe26df..6f18c07 100644
> > --- a/docs/bindings.html.in
> > +++ b/docs/bindings.html.in
> > @@ -15,8 +15,18 @@
> >          <a href="csharp.html">C# bindings</a>.
> >        </li>
> >       <li>
> > -        <strong>Go</strong>: Kyle Kelley et al. are developing
> > -        <a href="https://github.com/rgbkrk/libvirt-go">Go bindings</a>.
> > +        <strong>Go</strong>: There are two bindings available:
> > +        <a href="https://github.com/rgbkrk/libvirt-go">libvirt-go</a> and
> > +        <a href="https://github.com/digitalocean/go-libvirt">go-libvirt</a>.
> > +        <p>
> > +        The <tt>libvirt-go</tt> bindings are developed by Kyle Kelley et
> > +        al. and are built on the top of libvirt's client library.
> > +        </p>
> > +        <p>
> > +        The <tt>go-libvirt</tt> bindings are then developed by Ben
> > +        LeMasurier et al. and they hook straight into libvirt's RPC and thus do
> > +        not rely on <tt>cgo</tt>.
> > +        </p>
> 
> I really think we should *not* encourage use of this binding, on the basis
> that we really don't want people hooking into the RPC system like this. It
> makes them less future proof and locks them out of using any of the drivers
> that are outside libvirtd, unless they want to tunnel access to them via
> libvirtd which is just stupid.
> 

Also, I've spent the last 45 minutes finding a way of contacting someone to fix
this false statement - "libvirt developers are free to change the API or RPC
protocol at any time, potentially breaking go-libvirt" - since I refuse to log
in with facebook or whatever social rubbish just to be able to comment on the
article. Provided I didn't miss anything, they don't have any mailing list,
nor any direct email contact, so I joined the IRC channel and provided my
feedback there but I somehow doubt anyone cares really.

Erik

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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