[Rpm-ecosystem] [rpm-software-management] LIBDNF - gobject-introspection and reduction of public functions

[Igor Gnatenko]

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On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 11:08 +0100, Jaroslav Mracek wrote:
> Dear supporters of LIBDNF,

You sent to wrong mailing list, replying to proper one here.
> 
> According to a long term plan for LIBDNF, we would like to make LIBDNF
> lighter, with supported API. At the beginning we would like to drop a
> support of any externally unused functionality or bindings. At the present
> time, LIBDNF provides bindings using  gobject-introspection for
> dnf-context.cpp, dnf-context.h, dnf-repo.cpp dnf-repo.h, dnf-state.h,
> dnf-state.cpp, and dnf-version.h, but there is not known anybody that use
> it. I would like to open a discussion if there is any reason to support
> those bindings for now, because they reduce our flexibility in further
> development.
> 
> Additionally I started with reduction of publicly available functions (
> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/367) to reduce
> maintenance cost and to open a door for further changes without risk of
> changing API. The pull-request represents only the first part and it
> contains only utils that are only internally used by LIBDNF but unused by
> PackageKit, rpm-ostree, or microdnf. Please If any suggestions or issues
> with that, please let us know.
> 
> Have a nice day
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- -Igor Gnatenko
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