Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs language bindings for CentOS/RHEL 9
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 9:00 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 08:46:06AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> Hey Richard,
>
> I'm looking to use the libguestfs Python, PHP, and Go bindings on
> CentOS Stream 9, but it seems that these are not available right
> now. Could they be made available in CentOS/RHEL 9, if not, what was
> the reason for not shipping them? I believe these are shipped in
> Fedora today.
Hi Neal, answer depends on the particular bindings.
For python3-libguestfs, we have a BZ to move these back to AppStream,
so they should be usable. This should be done pretty soon:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019914
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.
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).
--
*Neal Gompa*
Senior DevOps Engineer
Datto, Inc.
www.datto.com
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