From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: James Dingwall <james@dingwall.me.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Python Bindings Status
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:10:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1426176601.32572.35.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150312110247.GA814@dingwall.me.uk>
On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 11:02 +0000, James Dingwall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use the libxl python bindings but having mixed levels of success. I assume that the current
> status of this is unsupported as the build of the xl.so is disabled by default but perhaps completing the
> missing parts could be quite trivial?
IMHO they are architecturally broken and should be redone from scratch.
In particular the "live update of the backing C struct" aspect is broken
in various respects IIRC and difficult to fix (the original author is
also long gone).
I expect this brokenness relates to why things appear to return 0 for
you.
IMHO a much more sensible approach would be to follow what the ocaml
bindings do and do on demand translation between Python<->C as you call
the libxl functions.
> What level of experience/effort would be required to address this?
Not much Xen experience, mostly Python bindings experience (the
generator itself is in Python too as it happens).
I think it would be a fair effort though.
Ian.
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