Re: [libvirt] New Libvirt Implementation - OpenNebula

[Ben Guthro <bguthro virtualiron com>]

As part of the internal API (and not explicitly exported from src/libvirt_sym.version) The  xml parsing would not be available to external apps.

Stefan de Konink wrote on 11/04/2008 11:21 AM:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:04:50PM +0100, Stefan de Konink wrote:
>>> Last time *your* argument was that the API would get too big. Now why
>>> isn't that argument valid anymore? I'm honestly asking for an
>>> explanation on this point, and I do expect you have it.
>>
>> You are confusing internal API with external API. The external API has
>> scalability issues because it is a long term supported ABI. The internal
>> API size is irrelevant because we can & will change that at will. The
>> domain XML handling API is internal only for in-tree drivers. So there
>> has been no change in policy wrt to the external API
> 
> Is an external tool able to use the internal XML handling (from a C
> perspective?) or isn't this code exported to the shared library?
> 
> 
> Stefan
> 
> ps. Sorry if you thought I was trying to virtualize a troll.
> 
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