[lxc-devel] create api

[Stéphane Graber]

On 05/14/2013 05:28 PM, Dwight Engen wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2013 14:13:45 -0500
> Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to rewrite lxc-create to be c (calling out to the c templates
>> which continue to be scripts for the most part).  Unfortunately right
>> now the lxcapi_create() just takes arguments to send to the lxc-create
>> script.
>>
>> I could either dump the existing lxcapi_create function, replace it
>> with something close to the lxcapi_clone, and update the current
>> callers, or I can write a new function lxcapi_create2, keeping
>> lxcapi_create() as calling the c program (which then calls
>> lxcapi_create2 :).
>>
>> The only reason to go with lxcapi_create2 would be for out of tree
>> callers (which includes the go bindings).  Since we're not at 1.0 yet
>> we don't guarantee anything about api stability (for exactly this
>> reason), but I thought I'd ask anyway what you all thought.
> 
> I'd vote for trying to keep the API as clean as possible until 1.0, but
> then I don't have an out of tree caller to update. This brings up a
> question though, with 1.0 we are going to consider stable the
> lxcapi_* routines only and not all symbols available from liblxc.so,
> correct?

Correct, at least that was my plan.

>> -serge
> 


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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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