[lxc-devel] create api

[Dwight Engen]

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?
 
> -serge