New API: inspect-get-hostname to return the hostname of the guest.

[libguestfs.git] / HACKING

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 3d60737..42f0f3a 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Adding a new action
 All action functions are generated automatically, so there are only
 two files you need to edit:
 
-(1) src/generator.ml: Add your new action, parameters, description,
-etc. to the big list called 'functions' at the top of this file.
+(1) generator/generator_actions.ml: Add your new action, parameters,
+description, etc. to the big list at the top of this file.
 
 (2) Edit/create a C file in daemon/ subdirectory which implements your
 'do_action' function.  Take a look at one of the numerous examples
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ appliance/
 capitests/
         Automated tests of the C API.
 
+cat/
+        The 'virt-cat' command and documentation.
+
 contrib/
         Outside contributions, experimental parts.
 
@@ -89,6 +92,11 @@ fish/
 fuse/
         FUSE (userspace filesystem) built on top of libguestfs.
 
+generator/
+        The crucially important generator, used to automatically
+        generate large amounts of boilerplate C code for things like
+        RPC and bindings.
+
 haskell/
         Haskell bindings.
 
@@ -115,6 +123,9 @@ m4/
 ocaml/
         OCaml bindings.
 
+php/
+        PHP bindings.
+
 po/
         Translations of simple gettext strings.  For translations of
         longer documents, see po-docs/.
@@ -137,14 +148,10 @@ ruby/
         Ruby bindings.
 
 tools/
-        Command line tools like virt-cat, virt-df, virt-edit and more.
-        In versions <= 1.0.73 these were all in separate directories
-        like cat/, df/, edit/, but since then we moved them all into
-        one directory to simplify builds.
+        Command line tools like virt-df, virt-edit and more.
 
 src/
         Source code to the C library.
-        Also contains the crucial generator program.
 
 test-tool/
         Interactive qemu/kernel test tool.