(4) For general "might be good to have" items, see 'TODO'.
-For next major stable release (1.10)
+For next major stable release (1.12)
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-* Continue with general reduction in use of Perl. This is not because
- we think Perl is a bad thing or anything like that, but because a
- major consumer (RHEV) does not want to include the Perl interpreter
- in the tiny hypervisor they ship, thus any tool written in or
- requiring Perl cannot be used by RHEV. OCaml and other high-level
- compiled languages are fine. For 1.8 we rewrote many tools in C.
-
* Make 'guestfish --ro' be the default, and get users to use
'guestfish --rw' for write access (but allow the default to be
overridden in a configuration file). This was originally planned
- for 1.8 but there's not nearly enough adoption of the new 'guestfish
- --rw' option out there to do this yet.
+ for 1.10 but there's not nearly enough adoption of the new
+ 'guestfish --rw' option out there to do this yet.
* Allow alternate methods to start the appliance, including through
libvirt and by connecting to an existing appliance. This was
- originally planned for 1.8 but we didn't get patches in time.
+ originally planned for 1.10 but we didn't get patches in time.
* Deeper and wider support for progress messages. Many long-running
operations in guestfs-browser don't display progress messages, eg.
GtkProgressBar supports a "pulse mode" where it indicates activity
with no time estimate, and we should try to support that as well.
-* Better handling of partitions, including MBR extended partitions
- (RHBZ#593511, RHBZ#602997, RHBZ#642821).
+* Better handling of partitions, including MBR extended partitions.
+ Write a new partition handling library to replace parted, and use it
+ instead of parted. (RHBZ#593511, RHBZ#602997, RHBZ#642821).
+
+* List full details of applications in RPM-based guests. At the
+ moment we can only list the names of applications, whereas for dpkg-
+ and Windows-based guests we offer much more complete output.
-Bugs assigned to 1.10 (put "1.10" in the Devel Whiteboard field in
+Bugs assigned to 1.12 (put "1.12" in the Devel Whiteboard field in
Bugzilla):
-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_devel_whiteboard&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&bug_status=PASSES_QA&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=1.10&component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization%20Tools&classification=Other
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf_devel_whiteboard&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=FAILS_QA&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&bug_status=PASSES_QA&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=1.12&component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization%20Tools&classification=Other
-Beyond 1.10
+Beyond 1.12
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* Hot plugging of disks using QMP. This would allow more efficient