[avahi] Re: Some notes on designing the Avahi DBUS API

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Sat Jun 25 06:15:43 PDT 2005


On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:48:04PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sat, 25.06.05 14:38, Sebastien Estienne (sebastien.estienne at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > > I made a little drawing with dia which might help you to understand
> > > how the modules currently play together:
> > > 
> > > http://freedesktop.org/~lennart/overview.png
> > > 
> > A little question about the drawing, especially the dbus and
> > libavahi-client boxes.
> > Will we only publish the libavahi-client library (and provide bindings
> > for other languages) or allow developpers to directly access the dbus
> > api through their prefered languages (python/qt/c#)?
> 
> libavahi-client is nothing more than a special offer to C
> developers to simplify things a little since it is sometimes a little
> fiddly to work directly with DBUS from C. All languages may use the
> DBUS API directly, if they wish. We should document both the DBUS API
> and the libavahi-client C API.
> 
> (That's at least what I have in mind. Lathiat, correct me if I am
> wrong)

Yep! :)

Trent

> 
> Lennart
> 
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
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