On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:56:46PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 07:51:00AM -0500, Jason Antman wrote: > > Hello, > > > > First off, thanks for the wonderful project, and thanks even more for > > all of the excellent work on the Python bindings lately. > > > > I'm working on a small project to collect data on kvm hosts/guests via a > > python collector client and display the data in a web interface. It > > works beautifully when using my various distros' OS packages for > > libvirt-python, but I've hit a bit of a snag when trying to do automated > > testing. I'm quite happy to see libvirt-python packaged as a python > > package and on pypi, but the version there is 1.2.0, which requires > > libvirt >= 0.9.11. > > > > Unfortunately, I was planning to test my python app on travis-ci, which > > runs Ubuntu Precise (12.04 LTS), and the latest version of libvirt for > > that is 0.9.8 (package python-libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.13). > > > > If I were to submit a patch, would there be any interest in me > > backporting the setup.py/packaging work to an older version of the > > python bindings - say 0.9.8 - and getting it published on pypi? > > It is not practical to support any version older than 0.9.11. > The code generator requires that the API XML description files > be installed by libvirt and it did not do that prior to the > 0.9.11 release > > For older distros just use the libvirt-python APIs that were > bundled with that distros' version fo libvirt. BTW Canonical provide an add-on "Cloud Archive" repository for the LTS release which includes updated versions of OpenStack, QEMU/KVM and libvirt. So if you need the updated libvirt it might be an option to use that repo. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list