On 12/18/2013 09:15 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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 Daniel, Ok, thanks for the heads-up and info. I'll see if I can get that working on travis-ci sometime this week, thanks for the tip. I guess in the interim I'll just roll a VM of a more recent distro to test on. -Jason -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list