build: Add ./configure --disable-fuse option.

[libguestfs.git] / HACKING

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index cc5b1c2..df28b7a 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
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ capitests/
 contrib/
         Outside contributions, experimental parts.
 
+csharp/
+        Experimental C# bindings.
+
 daemon/
         The daemon that runs inside the guest and carries out actions.
 
@@ -83,12 +86,21 @@ examples/
 fish/
         Guestfish (the command-line program / shell)
 
+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.
 
-hivex/
-       Hive extraction library, for reading Windows Registry files.
-       See hivex/README for more details.
+hivex/ [removed in 1.0.85]
+       This used to contain the hivex library for reading and
+       writing Windows Registry binary hive files.  This is now
+       available as a separate upstream project.
 
 images/
         Some guest images to test against.  These are gzipped to save
@@ -108,8 +120,17 @@ m4/
 ocaml/
         OCaml bindings.
 
+php/
+        PHP bindings.
+
 po/
-        Translations.
+        Translations of simple gettext strings.  For translations of
+        longer documents, see po-docs/.
+
+po-docs/
+        The build infrastructure and PO files for translations of
+        manpages and POD files.  Eventually this will be combined
+        with the po/ directory, but that is rather complicated.
 
 perl/
         Perl bindings.
@@ -131,7 +152,6 @@ tools/
 
 src/
         Source code to the C library.
-        Also contains the crucial generator program.
 
 test-tool/
         Interactive qemu/kernel test tool.