Re: RFC version information in API docs

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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:30:41PM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Sometimes, it's a bit hard to determine when exactly a function, flag
> or macro appeared in libvirt, ie. whether it will be supported on my
> target machine having a specific version of libvirt or not.
> 
> So, I have created an enriched version of the API docs, using a XSL
> stylesheet enumerating the libvirt?-api.xml files of all libvirt
> releases.
> 
> For an example, you can have a look here:
> 
> http://avdv.github.io/libvirt/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virVcpuState
> 
> Hovering over an enum value displays version information in a tooltip.
> 
> What do you think? Should this information be included by default in
> the API docs?

The version an API appeared is not always that useful - since you
typically need to know what version a hypervisor driver supported
it in. Do you know about this page which shows the version matrix
for APIs + drivers:

  http://libvirt.org/hvsupport.html


Daniel
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