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

[Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>]

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 always thought that a use case like this was one of the motivations
to introduce libxl.


Juergen