On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:44:50PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/13/2011 03:18 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > yes but from that point on if you use inheritance, the fact of using > >the qemu tainted objects instead of the normal ones disapear completely. > >The fact of using those temporary APIs get hidden in an import and a > >new() somewhere. I would really prefer to see something explicit at the > >place where it is used, something that people can't miss where reading > >the code using it. > > I like the idea of making the unsupported qemu-tainted objects > explicit at every use point rather than hidden behind the import and > new() hundreds of lines earlier in the file; at any rate, it means > when you later revisit the file to clean out the unsupported qemu > direct use with newly added libvirt features, you know every line > that needs fixing. But I'm not enough of a python coder to know if > this is typically done anywhere else, so I don't know if my vote > counts as a tie-breaker. sure, guess that between your feedback and Osier one, we should go for the second solution, thanks ! Daniel BTW it's trivial for the user to make a superset class and use that, but then it's a concious design decision on their part and shows up in their class hierarchy -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list