[Pkg-xen-devel] [patch] Packages ocaml libraries

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 17:16 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:10:32PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Frankly, I'm really concerned if we move things in non-standard
> > libraries, without having even a return from Bastian about his
> > explanations why we should use /usr/lib/xen-<version>, just because that
> > is the current state of the Xen hypervisor pacakge. We MUST have a good
> > reason to do things in a way or another.
> 
> Ask upstream why they insist on breaking the interfaces with every
> version.

We started the libxl project in part to add a library interface for all
toolstacks which can have a stable API which we can support long term.
We do not want to commit to maintaining a stable API for some of the
other lower level libs such as libxenctrl though but libxl is intended
to abstract this.

Of course there is the small matter of transitioning the users to this
new library...

Ian.
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Ian Campbell

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