dbus/doc TODO,1.42,1.43

Havoc Pennington hp at pdx.freedesktop.org
Tue Jun 1 06:59:01 PDT 2004


Update of /cvs/dbus/dbus/doc
In directory pdx:/tmp/cvs-serv7639/doc

Modified Files:
	TODO 
Log Message:
add a couple thoughts so I remember them


Index: TODO
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RCS file: /cvs/dbus/dbus/doc/TODO,v
retrieving revision 1.42
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -d -r1.42 -r1.43
--- a/TODO	28 May 2004 19:09:00 -0000	1.42
+++ b/TODO	1 Jun 2004 13:58:57 -0000	1.43
@@ -115,3 +115,14 @@
    since protocol probably modifies the API. But we could have it there
    as a safety net.
 
+- STRING_OR_NIL is wrong, doesn't work in C++ etc. ; should not have done that.
+  Use empty string or special string values or separate functions/signals 
+  or whatever instead.
+
+- For recursive types, one approach is that "structs" are done as parens, 
+  so e.g. s(ii) is a string and struct { int; int; } etc. Type codes
+  then all have to be done as strings not single ints.
+  We could also put the type signature for the message body in a header field.
+  An "any" type has the type string included in the value.
+
+




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