Perl Net::DBus release 0.32.3

[John (J5) Palmieri]

So the only API change really is in RequestName.  The flags have changed
(and the behavior with it).  It should take about five minutes to port
your code.  Just a heads up.

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> An updated release of the Perl Net::DBus bindings, version 0.32.3 is now 
> available from CPAN at:
> 
>   http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DANBERR/Net-DBus-0.32.3.tar.gz
> 
> With online browsable documentation at:
> 
>   http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/Net-DBus-0.32.3/
> 
> This release should work with all versions of DBus betwween 0.32.0 and 0.50.
> I explicitly test on Fedora Core 4 releases at this time. Due to the ABI/API
> changes, I do *not* believe this release will work with the new DBus 0.60, 
> so anticipate a future update to support that.
> 
> Bullet point list of changes is:
> 
>   http://search.cpan.org/src/DANBERR/Net-DBus-0.32.3/CHANGES
> 
> The long answer is....
> 
> The major focus of this release was making sure the bindings operate
> well in cases where introspection data is either not provided, or only 
> partially specified. For example, if using GLib bindings in the old 
> way without binding-tool, Introspect would be implemented but just 
> returns an empty document. Old Perl bindings release would think the 
> object exported no methods & thus fail. With this release, introspection 
> data is treated purely as a hint for data type marshalling, and method
> to interface resolution.
> 
> Following on from this, since there are evidently quite a few services 
> around which do not provide introspection data, but do have need for
> strict data typing of their parameters, I have re-introduced the methods
> to let a client explicitly cast method parameters. These should only be
> used when no introspection data is available, and must be requested by
> specifying 'use Net::DBus qw(:typing)'. See POD docs for more info
> 
> Basic support for annotations is now present, so one can mark an exported
> method/signal as deprecated, and if calling a deprecated method/connecting 
> to a deprecated signal a warning will be output. See Net::DBus::Exporter
> for more info.
> 
> Finally, in addition to 'session' and 'system' bus types, there is an 
> *experimental* 'test' bus which provides a local 'mock' connection. This 
> is intended for unit tests to allow one to test services which may call 
> out to other services on the bus, without requiring a full bus connection. 
> See Net::DBus::Test::MockObject for more info.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan.
> 
> NB. 'make test' will fail you have compiled DBus with assertion checking
>     enabled. This will be resolved at a future date.
> 
> NB. Please ignore the bogus '0.32.3a' release on CPAN - I had a fight
>     with CPAN when uploading & CPAN won - the bogus '.3a' version will 
>     be removed from CPAN by the weekend.
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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>