Re: [systemd-devel] Future of systemd Python module

2013-01-22 Thread David Strauss
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > We > had the question of creating C libraries for wrapping D-Bus APIs in > GNOME upstream a few years ago, and we all came to the conclusion that > instead of writing those we should rather make the D-Bus python glue > nicer. The result

Re: [systemd-devel] Future of systemd Python module

2013-01-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 22.01.13 08:43, George McCollister ([email protected]) wrote: > Are there plans (or desire) to expand the Python module included > with systemd beyond Journal? Is there desire to replicate or wrap > functionality provided by the DBUS API or is this beyond the design > scope of t

Re: [systemd-devel] Future of systemd Python module

2013-01-22 Thread David Strauss
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:43 AM, George McCollister wrote: > Is there desire to replicate or wrap functionality provided by the DBUS API > or is this beyond the design scope of this module? I think it would be worthwhile to support Pythonic APIs for things like what systemctl can do from the CLI.

Re: [systemd-devel] Future of systemd Python module

2013-01-22 Thread David Strauss
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > The package is stuctured so that it is possible to easily add new > modules. Any new additions would have to be generally useful to be > included in the main package. It's just that so far, no extensions > have been proposed, so

Re: [systemd-devel] Future of systemd Python module

2013-01-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:43:07AM -0600, George McCollister wrote: > Are there plans (or desire) to expand the Python module included > with systemd beyond Journal? Is there desire to replicate or wrap > functionality provided by the DBUS API or is this beyond the design > scope of this module? Hi