[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: document that C & Python are the preferred languages

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu Sep 5 14:22:17 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 12:42 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> +    <p>
> +      The libvirt repository makes use of a large number of programming
> +      languages. There is a general desire to phase out some of the
> +      existing languages used to reduce the knowledge burden on
> +      developers, and facilitate introduction of new languages in
> +      the future.

Reducing the number of languages used by the project and facilitating
the introduction of more languages seem to be contrasting goals.
Accordingly, I would leave out the last part of the sentence.

> +      <li>C - for the main libvirt codebase. Dialect supported by
> +        GCC/CLang only.</li>
> +      <li>Python - for supporting build scripts / tools. Code must
> +        run with both version 2.7 and 3.x at this time.</li>

Instead of esplicitly singling out 2.7 and 3.x, I would just say that
for both C and Python there it is required to support all platforms
listed in "platforms.html".

> +    <p>
> +      Languages that should not be used for any new contributions.

s/contributions./contributions:/

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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