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Andrea Bolognani 94153862ab docs: Add programming-languages.rst 
Most new contributors are probably going to modify existing code rather
than introducing all-new programs and scripts, and even when the latter
happen they'll hopefully get a feel for which programming languages are
considered acceptable for the project by looking at what's already in
the repo. Make this part less prominent by moving it to a separate page.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-04-08 09:32:32 +02:00

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Programming languages

The libvirt repository makes use of a large number of programming languages. It is anticipated that in the future libvirt will adopt use of other new languages. To reduce the overall burden on developers, there is thus a general desire to phase out usage of some of the existing languages.

The preferred languages at this time are:

  • C - for the main libvirt codebase. Dialect supported by GCC/CLang only.
  • Python - for supporting build scripts / tools. Code must run with both version 2.7 and 3.x at this time.

Languages that should not be used for any new contributions:

  • Perl - build scripts must be written in Python instead.
  • Shell - build scripts must be written in Python instead.