X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=HACKING;h=f77defef66818817e587bb59cdd938868644b3f2;hp=e0b0f0f167c37e33fc7bec1b2d50c911d9a8b698;hb=fa7c8bb79b45aecdf65ed93635a42f3fdf301134;hpb=acf9000252da7f4f3fde693ecc03461007cf0bf9 diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index e0b0f0f..f77defe 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +PLEASE LOOK AT THE TOP OF EACH FILE BEFORE EDITING TO SEE WHETHER IT +IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED OR NOT. + Adding a new action ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -15,9 +18,6 @@ You will need to run src/generator.ml (from the top directory) which regenerates all the auto-generated files, and then continue with the ordinary build process. -PLEASE LOOK AT THE TOP OF EACH FILE BEFORE EDITING to see whether it -is automatically generated or not. - Formatting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ images/ Some guest images to test against. These are gzipped to save space. You have to unzip them before use. + Also contains some files used by the test suite. + +inspector/ + Virtual machine image inspector (virt-inspector). + +java/ + Java bindings. + m4/ M4 macros used by autoconf. @@ -56,6 +64,9 @@ perl/ python/ Python bindings. +ruby/ + Ruby bindings. + src/ Source code to the C library. Also contains the crucial generator program. @@ -65,8 +76,9 @@ Debugging It's a good idea to use guestfish to try out new commands. -Use 'guestfish -v', which will show error messages etc from the -daemon. +Debugging the daemon is a problem because it runs inside a minimal +qemu environment. However you can print messages from the daemon, and +they will show up if you use 'guestfish -v'. Patches ----------------------------------------------------------------------