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

[Daniel Mach]

Neal,
IIRC you're looking for *any* Perl bindings, not necessarily GIR.
Am I correct?
Would Perl bindings generated via SWIG work for you?

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Igor Gnatenko
> <ignatenkobrain at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
>
> So currently, there's no one I know of using the GIR bindings except
> for DNF itself for SWDB. However, one of the strategies being
> considered for migrating Mageia's tooling to the DNF stack is to use
> the gobject-introspection bindings because most of the tools are in
> Perl. Unless we go down the road of using Inline::Python to use the
> DNF Python 3 API in our tools, I think we'd probably want to use the
> GObject Introspection bindings. I was hoping that more of the Python
> API would become available through g-i...
>
> Angelo Naselli (CC'd here) is helping me figure out our porting effort
> (and the primary developer of dnfdragora), and Thierry Vignaud (also
> CC'd here) is the developer/maintainer of our installer and the media
> creation tools. Both of these people would have a good idea of how we
> want to proceed.
>
>
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