They will be removed in libguestfs 1.58 (the next but one version).
Currently they don't actually compile. The larger problem is that
they don't handle 64 bit quantities properly (using floats instead),
meaning that any disk size or offset above a certain size will be
improperly passed through the API, usually rounded to the nearest
53 bits.
This changes podwrapper so that the input (POD) files should not
contain an =encoding directive. However they must be UTF-8.
Podwrapper then adds the '=encoding utf8' directive back during final
generation.
This in particular avoids problems with nested =encoding directives in
fragments. These break POD, and are undesirable anyway.
See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/95065
Note that this is incompatible with existing code. You
have to do:
local G = require "guestfs"
local g = G.create ()
ie. give the module your own name ("G" in that example).
- add support for events (with test)
- test progress messages
- update documentation to describe events
- refactor handle closing code
- refactor error code
- use 'assert' in test code instead of 'if ... then error end'
