Punting the convenience functions TODO item?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue Jun 7 16:28:45 PDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:07 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> -  The convenience functions in dbus-bus.h should perhaps have
>    the signatures that they would have if they were autogenerated
>    stubs. e.g. the acquire service function. We should also evaluate 
>    which of these functions to include, in light of the fact that 
>    GLib/Qt native stubs will probably also exist.
> 
> There aren't that many convenience functions in there and we can just
> encourage the use of the bindings when they are ready (and also have the
> bindings talk to DBus directly instead of implementing these).  There is
> little value in changing the API here and will piss some people off if
> we did.  I would say just wean people off slowly with the bindings.
> 

Sounds fair to me. We can always deprecate.

Havoc




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