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

[Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@oracle.com>]

On 10/06/2015 11:26 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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.

IanC: I remember you said xl bindings has some design issue and should not
be used. Is it still the case today?

Zhigang