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

[Jim Fehlig]

On 9/23/19 7:52 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé  wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:15:04PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:30:27PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
>>> (BTW, what does the removal of perl from libvirt say about continued
>>> use of perl for libvirt-tck? There are a lot of useful tests in there
>>> that find real bugs, but they tend to languish (both in use and in
>>> enhancements) because nobody wants to do anything with perl (or with
>>> the big shell scripts that do the nwfilter testing). It would be nice
>>> if the tests were all in a language that was more accessible, but
>>> they're kind of married to the perl TAP module (and besides, who
>>> wants to spend time rewriting a bunch of test scripts when they
>>> already work?). This is mostly a moot point, because I think hardly
>>> anyone runs the libvirt-tck tests anymore, which is too bad because
>>> it has historically caught some regressions that no other testing
>>> framework did.)
>>
>> I believe they are run by the Red Hat virt QE team, as I ave
>> got bug reports against the Perl libvirt bindings, where the
>> reproducer is a TCK script.

Sorry for jumping in late, but I also run TCK regularly and agree that it does 
find real bugs on occasion. I've submitted several patches over the years fixing 
bugs found by TCK, and a sprinkling of patches to TCK itself. I admit the perl 
requirement has deterred writing new tests.

Regards,
Jim