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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 12:16:22 +0200
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On 10/09/2015 11:43 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 06:42 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>
>> Is it okay to remove all of the unused bindings?
>
> Please can you remind me what your motivation is here, just cleaning up
> detritus or are some of these bindings actively hindering work you are
> doing? Or are they known to be broken?

With the "superpages" feature removal patch I sent yesterday they are
no longer hindering me.

OTOH with xend as the only in-tree user being removed some cleaning up
seems to be appropriate IMHO.

> If it's just tidying up and not getting in your way then I'm not sure this
> is worth the effort, but to answer your question above:
>
> IMHO (and other tools maintainers may disagree) ones which are truly to the
> best of our knowledge unused, yes. "To the best of our knowledge" probably
> involves some due diligence and fair warning first.

I agree.

> It would be best to announce the intention on xen-devel in a mail with a
> subject ("Intention to deprectate and remove some Python libxc bindings)
> which will garner sufficient attention (i.e. not below a patch posting
> thread) and Cc anyone who we think might be using the interfaces (Andy,
> Zhigang, the chap from invisible-things who spoke up recently in a similar
> thread if not this exact one).
>
> It is probably worth cross posting to xen-users to get input from there.

Okay, I'll do that.


Juergen