From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhigang Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: remove unused wrappers for python Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:24:32 -0400 Message-ID: <5613E7B0.5020405@oracle.com> References: <1444128368-31585-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> <20151006111849.GW29124@zion.uk.xensource.com> <5613B1A2.2030800@suse.com> <20151006113902.GY29124@zion.uk.xensource.com> <1444138837.5302.174.camel@citrix.com> <5613DFF9.6000309@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5613DFF9.6000309@suse.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Juergen Gross , Ian Campbell , Wei Liu Cc: Andrew Cooper , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 10/06/2015 10:51 AM, 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. We use these extentions along with xend XMLRPC API/xm. Even when move to xl, this will give us a choice to reserve some logic. Thanks, Zhigang