Perl Net::DBus Help and Documentation

[David Belser]

Madi -

Dan's written a great Perl module and I've been using it extensively.
I thought about contributing documentation but I'm a awful writer. I'd
be happy to review anything as a third party if needed.

- Dave

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Madison Kelly <linux at alteeve.com> wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:47:59AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
>  >> Hi all,
>  >>
>  >>    I've been struggling off and on with the Net::DBus bindings for perl.
>  >> I've had some success in using existing buses (HAL on system,
>  >> specifically). Now though I am trying to have my program's daemon create
>  >> a bus and register clients as objects when they connect and provide
>  >> basic communication between server-side scripts and clients, via the
>  >> daemon process. I've got the client/server communication in place, but I
>  >> have not been able to get the DBus portion working.
>  >>
>  >>    In the past, when I have struggled to learn something, I would write
>  >> documentation, generally in the form of a *LUG presentation. I would
>  >> like to do this for perl's Net::DBus bindings, both as a way to help me
>  >> learn DBus better and as a way to contribute a How-To geared more to
>  >> perl programmers who are quite new to the DBus concept.
>  >
>  > That sounds like a great idea.
>
>  Woohoo. :)
>
>
>  >>    Would anyone here be interested in helping me with this?
>  >>
>  >>    All I need, more than anything, is help getting the most basic sample
>  >> code working, and I can start building on that myself. I would need to
>  >> only ask occasional questions when I go stuck. In turn, I would provide
>  >> the How-To back to the community.
>  >
>  > I'm happy to advise / help out on anything that's unclear about the Perl
>  > bindings - either on this list, or 'danpb' / 'danpb_ltop'  on the DBus
>  > IRC channel.
>
>  I will jump in there tomorrow midday and see if you're on.
>
>
>
>  >>    Here are links to talks I have given on general storage and
>  >> netfiltering with iptables:
>  >>
>  >> (2002) http://tle-bu.org/docs/Talk-TLUG_storage_200205-2.pdf
>  >> (2004) http://tle-bu.org/docs/TLE-WhitePaper_Netfilter-v1.1.pdf
>  >>
>  >>    More as an example of my writing style; these are two papers on an
>  >> old, deprecated versions of the program I am working on:
>  >>
>  >> (2004) http://tle-bu.org/docs/TLUG-Talk_TLE-BU_2004-10-12.pdf
>  >> (2005) http://tle-bu.org/docs/TLUG-Talk_TLE-BU_2005-10-11.pdf
>  >>
>  >>    I think DBus can offer some wonderful potential and I know I would
>  >> personally have benefited from a more basic introduction to DBus coding.
>  >> This is not in any way to disparage Mr. Berrange's Tutorials! I found
>  >> though that they are probably more applicable to people who are already
>  >> familiar with DBus and are just looking for info on the perl bindings.
>  >
>  > Yep, I certainly won't claim the tutorials are complete ! They do presume
>  > you know what the core dbus concepts are to a certain extent. And I only
>  > really did the one for exporting objects
>  >
>  > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-DBus/lib/Net/DBus/Tutorial/ExportingObjects.pod
>  >
>  > and never got free time to do the corresponding client one for using
>  > objects
>  >
>  > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-DBus/lib/Net/DBus/Tutorial/UsingObjects.pod
>  >
>  >>    I hope to supplement Mr. Berrange's docs by creating a document that
>  >> will gently easy a perl programmer who is new to DBus entirely into the
>  >> Net::DBus bindings. :)
>  >
>  > If you want to have any of your docs included in the official Perl Net::DBus
>  > releases I'm only to happy to accept patches for the docs / extra tutorials.
>  > Either send them to this list, or to me directly & I'll apply them. The
>  > master source repo I use is published
>  >
>  >   http://hg.berrange.com/libraries/net-dbus--devel
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Dan.
>
>  Once I get enough done to warrant adding something, we can work out how
>  to get it up then. For now, I need to start looking at my disorganized
>  notes and start making them more coherent. When I catch you on IRC we
>  can gab more.
>
>  Thanks for taking an interest, I look forward to adding what I can. :)
>
>  Madi (aka: Digimer on IRC/elsewhere)
>
>
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