Re: [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 17:21 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 10/06/2015 05:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 16:51 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > On 10/06/2015 03:40 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 12:39 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > And for the record, if my google-fu doesn't fail me, it's
> > > > > possible to
> > > > > load shared library into python interpreter using "dl" module in
> > > > > 2.7
> > > > > and
> > > > > "ctypes" module in 3.x.
> > > > 
> > > > Possible, but not especially convenient since you need to convert
> > > > the C
> > > > prototype manually, plus the result is not necessarily very
> > > > "pythonic".
> > > > 
> > > > I could totally see why people would prefer these bindings (or an
> > > > argument
> > > > for us providing a ctypes based wrapper).
> > > 
> > > How often is such a debugging interface being used? Please consider
> > > the amount of code (my patch removed nearly 3000 lines of code!) and
> > > the availability of the xl wrapper.
> > 
> > My understanding was that this was used by the "xen-bugtool" stuff in
> > XenServer, so for actual functionality (gathering debug info) and not
> > debugging (I supposed that the reference to being used for debugging was
> > due to the name of the tool).
> 
> And this functionality isn't available via the xl bindings?

I don't know, we'll have to wait for those who are using it to chime in.

Ian.