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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>
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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.