Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs language bindings for CentOS/RHEL 9
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:08:09AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 9:00 AM Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
For PHP, the bindings are currently broken upstream. Patches
welcome etc ...
Is there a particular report indicating what's broken upstream that
I can look at? I see that the bindings are built in Fedora against
PHP 8.0 (which RHEL 9 ships with), so I somewhat expect them to
work.
AIUI they don't actually work properly with PHP 8 and/or needs
significant porting effort. The references are:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1935753
https://www.seidengroup.com/2020/12/07/porting-extensions-to-php-8/
For Golang I think most people are anticipating that you'll
"vendor"
(ie. bundle) the bindings in your code. While this is stupid, the
language effectively forces you to do that. A longer term plan may
look more like what we recently did with the libnbd bindings, but
we're not there yet.
Search "golang" here:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2021-November/thread.html
But since libguestfs dynamically generates the bindings for various
languages, is it even workable to separate it like that? You could
build it as a pile of Go binding sources and ship it that way
(similar to how other Go bindings are shipped in Fedora).
In fact so does libnbd, so the problems were the same. Nir (CC'd)
can talk a bit more about this. My interest in golang is >< small.
Rich.
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