X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=HACKING;h=9ae20a6f055feba0db22f60138ab990347f7aeaa;hp=5752ec3a8559add97f433cbc25046fab15623e44;hb=6590e04bdcc3038312cb0a5f5545f1f0924907b2;hpb=429de2254176e470035eef05e0f3e9910d46863c diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 5752ec3..9ae20a6 100644 --- 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. @@ -84,14 +87,20 @@ fish/ Guestfish (the command-line program / shell) fuse/ - FUSE (userspace filesystem) built on top of libguestfs. + 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 @@ -112,7 +121,13 @@ ocaml/ OCaml 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. @@ -134,7 +149,6 @@ tools/ src/ Source code to the C library. - Also contains the crucial generator program. test-tool/ Interactive qemu/kernel test tool.