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Programming languages
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The libvirt repository makes use of a large number of programming
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languages. It is anticipated that in the future libvirt will adopt
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use of other new languages. To reduce the overall burden on
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developers, there is thus a general desire to phase out usage of
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some of the existing languages.
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The preferred languages at this time are:
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- C - for the main libvirt codebase. Dialect supported by
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GCC/Clang only.
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- Python - for supporting build scripts / tools. Code must run
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with both version 2.7 and 3.x at this time.
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Languages that should not be used for any new contributions:
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- Perl - build scripts must be written in Python instead.
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- Shell - build scripts must be written in Python instead.
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