Re: [PATCH] tools/ocaml: Drop libxl bindings

[Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On 9 Feb 2023, at 16:41, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 09/02/2023 3:43 pm, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> There are significant issues with these bindings, and their companion half in
>> Xapi was deleted in 2018
>> 
>>  
>> https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/commit/203292ebe0c487d7ae4adb961a6d080f4fbe933d
>> 
>> owing to there having been no development of these bindings since 2014.
>> 
>> In the unlikely event that we'd want to reinstate them, they'd need reworking
>> basically from scratch anyway.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> CC: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: David Scott <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Edwin Török <edwin.torok@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Rob Hoes <Rob.Hoes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> I'm unsure whether to drop xentoollog.  They're technically orphaned by this
>> change, but could be used in principle by the other bindings.
> 
> It turns out that the xentoollog bindings segfault anyway, and are an an
> equal state of disrepair to the libxl bindings.  In agreement with Edvin
> and Christian, I've dropped them too in this change, but I won't bother
> reposting an extra several thousand line deletion.
> 
> ~Andrew

Acked-by: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@xxxxxxxxxx>