Add a simple way to do not even provide prototypes of deprecated
functions in the C library: this way, users (like our tools) can build
against the library making sure to not use any deprecated function, not
even when compiler deprecation warnings are disabled.
Add it to the majority of our tools/internal libraries, and make sure
that it is not defined when building the API bridges of our bindings.
Right now, deprecated functions of the library do not trigger any
compiler deprecation warning by default; they do that only if
GUESTFS_WARN_DEPRECATED=1 is defined. However, this is not something
that seems to be done often -- at least none of the projects using the
libguestfs C API does that.
Hence, do a small behaviour change to change this on the other way
round: now deprecated functions trigger compiler deprecation warnings by
default, using GUESTFS_NO_WARN_DEPRECATED to disable this (and revert
to the previous behaviour). Even though deprecated functions will not
be removed, we really want users to migrate away from them, as they were
deprecated for good reasons.
Define GUESTFS_NO_WARN_DEPRECATED where needed:
- in all the bindings, as they bind all the functions including the
deprecated ones
- in the guestfish actions, as it exposes almost all the APIs
- in the C API test, as it runs the automated tests of all the APIs that
have them
- for two tests that explicitly test deprecated functions
If you have a struct containing ‘field’, eg:
type t = { field : int }
then previously to pattern-match on this type, eg. in function
parameters, you had to write:
let f { field = field } =
(* ... use field ... *)
In OCaml >= 3.12 it is possible to abbreviate cases where the field
being matched and the variable being bound have the same name, so now
you can just write:
let f { field } =
(* ... use field ... *)
(Similarly for a field prefixed by a Module name you can use
‘{ Module.field }’ instead of ‘{ Module.field = field }’).
This style is widely used inside the OCaml compiler sources, and is
briefer than the long form, so it makes sense to use it. Furthermore
there was one place in virt-dib where we are already using this new
style, so the old code did not compile on OCaml < 3.12.
See also:
https://forge.ocamlcore.org/docman/view.php/77/112/leroy-cug2010.pdf
The gobject bindings are adequately covered in the usual manual pages:
guestfs(3). There is no need for separate generation of gtk-doc.
Also generating gtk documentation is the slowest part of the build,
and the tooling around gtk-doc is broken
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1465665).
Note this removes the configure ‘--enable-gtk-doc’ option. Using this
option now gives a warning, but is otherwise ignored:
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-gtk-doc
The new module ‘Std_utils’ contains only functions which are pure
OCaml and depend only on the OCaml stdlib. Therefore these functions
may be used by the generator.
The new module is moved to ‘common/mlstdutils’.
This also removes the "<stdlib>" hack, and the code which copied the
library around.
Also ‘Guestfs_config’, ‘Libdir’ and ‘StringMap’ modules are moved
since these are essentially the same.
The bulk of this change is just updating files which use
‘open Common_utils’ to add ‘open Std_utils’ where necessary.
Previously we had lots of types like String, Device, StringList,
DeviceList, etc. where Device was just a String with magical
properties (but only inside the daemon), and DeviceList was just a
list of Device strings.
Replace these with some simple top-level types:
String
StringList
and move the magic into a subtype.
The change is mechanical, for example:
old ---> new
FileIn "filename" String (FileIn, "filename")
DeviceList "devices" StringList (Device, "devices")
Handling BufferIn is sufficiently different from a plain String
throughout all the bindings that it still uses a top-level type.
(Compare with FileIn/FileOut where the only difference is in the
protocol, but the bindings can uniformly treat it as a plain String.)
There is no semantic change, and the generated files are identical
except for a minor change in the (deprecated) Perl
%guestfs_introspection table.
- Make module name explicit, so it's more obvious which module a
function is defined in.
- Group lines of code by feature.
- Capitalize some module names properly.
Just code motion, no functional change.
