On 23.11.2016 10:24, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:48:43AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: >> I've came across this site [1] which refers to yet another Go >> libvirt bindings. Add them to the list. >> >> 1: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-go-qemu-and-go-libvirt/ >> >> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> docs/bindings.html.in | 14 ++++++++++++-- >> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/docs/bindings.html.in b/docs/bindings.html.in >> index 7fe26df..6f18c07 100644 >> --- a/docs/bindings.html.in >> +++ b/docs/bindings.html.in >> @@ -15,8 +15,18 @@ >> <a href="csharp.html">C# bindings</a>. >> </li> >> <li> >> - <strong>Go</strong>: Kyle Kelley et al. are developing >> - <a href="https://github.com/rgbkrk/libvirt-go";>Go bindings</a>. >> + <strong>Go</strong>: There are two bindings available: >> + <a href="https://github.com/rgbkrk/libvirt-go";>libvirt-go</a> and >> + <a href="https://github.com/digitalocean/go-libvirt";>go-libvirt</a>. >> + <p> >> + The <tt>libvirt-go</tt> bindings are developed by Kyle Kelley et >> + al. and are built on the top of libvirt's client library. >> + </p> >> + <p> >> + The <tt>go-libvirt</tt> bindings are then developed by Ben >> + LeMasurier et al. and they hook straight into libvirt's RPC and thus do >> + not rely on <tt>cgo</tt>. >> + </p> > > I really think we should *not* encourage use of this binding, on the basis > that we really don't want people hooking into the RPC system like this. It > makes them less future proof and locks them out of using any of the drivers > that are outside libvirtd, unless they want to tunnel access to them via > libvirtd which is just stupid. Fair enough. Frankly, I was surprised they do this and I am not in favour of them doing so, but I thought that shouldn't stop me from proposing this patch. Another reason is that there's not strictly 1:1 relationship between a libvirt API and RPC call. So after all I'm okay with dropping this patch. Michal -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
