[libvirt] Language consolidation (Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] storage backend support matrix)

[Ján Tomko]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 06:03:46PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:03:33PM +0000, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is an updated version of the previous Storage backend support matrix in the doc.
>> As discussed with Michal, the matrix is now part of hvsupport.html with a
>> paragraph and link from storage.html.
>>
>> This has now been turned into a series to fix the links in TOC of the storage
>> page
>>
>> Cédric Bosdonnat (2):
>>   Fix hvsupport toc
>>   Generate status of the backend implementation in hvsupport.html
>>
>>  .gitignore                   |  1 +
>>  docs/Makefile.am             | 12 +++++--
>>  docs/apibuild.py             |  2 ++
>>  docs/hvsupport.pl            |  4 ++-
>>  docs/storage.html.in         | 13 ++++++++
>>  docs/storagebackendstatus.py | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>I can't really say I'm a fan of implementing this via a second
>python script, as opposed to just putting the logic into the
>existing hvsupport.pl script directly.
>
>I can totally understand though if the idea of writing Perl code
>was not appealing :-)
>
>FWIW, as the person responsible for much of the Perl code in libvirt,
>I think we should make it an explicit TODO item to convert all our
>Perl code into Python 3 code.
>

Please do make it explicit by proposing a patch against the HACKING page
with human-readable justification (i.e. not just ASCII art of animals)

>Given that we're likely to incorporate some new languages like Rust
>and/or Go code in libvirt, we definitely want to try to cull some

and or or?

RE: your rewrite of virt-host-validate in Go, I feel like getting that
merged (even in a separate repo) is a precedent for further sunsetting
in case 'or' becomes the preferred conjunction there.

Jano

>other languages we use.
>Perl is the obvious one. The autotools mix
>of autoconf/shell/m4/make languages are the other clear candidates,
>to replace with meson's domain specific language.
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