Re: [RFC] native python Xenstore module

[Simon Rowe <simon.rowe@eu.citrix.com>]

On 24/02/15 16:41, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Are/were you aware ofhttps://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyxs  which sounds
> like something similar, judging from its blurb alone?

No, I wasn't. It certainly looks a more solid implementation than mine.
>
> https://launchpad.net/pyxenstore/  might be too, although I don't know if
> that one is pure python.

This looks to be just a higher level C to python interface than 
xen.lowlevel.xs.

> Anyhow is your intention to have this added to the xen.git tree, perhaps
> even replacing tools/python/xen/lowlevel/xs/ or just to gather feedback
> on some code destined for an external project?
I was interested in feedback about having implementations such as these 
more easily consumed by guest distros. At present using something linked 
against libxenstore.so requires Xen tools to have been built 
(obviously). If there are already serviceable implementations available 
(which it appears there is) then the best policy is probably to 
encourage distros to package and include them.

> Personally I don't see a problem with including it in tree, replacing
> xen.lowlevel.xs might require thinking a little about API compatibility,
> which might be a pain...
pyxs even has a compat interface.

Simon