[Xen-API] Changes to xapi project repositories

[Jon Ludlam <jonathan.ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

We're doing a bit of an overhaul of the ocaml repositories used for 
building XenServer.
For a long time, we've had two main repositories - xen-api.git and 
xen-api-libs.git. The split between these two was always a source of 
confusion, with many libraries in xen-api.git, and many changes to one 
requiring immediate changes to the other. It has also led to problems 
when trying to make packages for distributions like Debian, Ubuntu and 
CentOS Linux. So we're making small steps towards splitting up these 
repositories into smaller, better characterised repositories.
The first batch of changes will be going through this week, and is 
focusing on the xen-api-libs component. The result of this will be that 
xen-api-libs.git will be deprecated, and replaced by the following 
repositories:
https://github.com/xapi-project/netdev
https://github.com/xapi-project/libvhd
https://github.com/xapi-project/nbd
https://github.com/xapi-project/tapctl
https://github.com/xapi-project/forkexecd
https://github.com/xapi-project/cdrom
https://github.com/xapi-project/ocaml-fd-send-recv
https://github.com/xapi-project/stdext
https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api-libs-transitional

The last two, stdext and xen-api-libs-transitional, are intended to only 
be used temporarily while we switch away to alternatives.
Additionally, we are also now using the following repositories:

https://github.com/xapi-project/ocaml-xen-lowlevel-libs
https://github.com/xapi-project/ocaml-xenstore-clients
https://github.com/xapi-project/ocaml-xenstore

whose functionality we were previously getting from the libraries in the 
xen.git repository. These repositories are intended to act as an 
'upstream' staging area to the xen repository,
Much of this work was prototyped for the XenServer Tech Preview that was 
published recently - the announcement here represents the change of 
Citrix's internal build system to using these new repositories in our 
continuous integration (CI) system. There is intended to be no 
_functional_ change as a result of this work.
The next steps for this are to begin splitting up the xen-api.git 
repository used by the CI system. Again, a lot of the work has been 
started, and many new repositories can be seen on the xapi-project 
github page. The timeline for this work is intended to the next few weeks.
Jon


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