[0.23.4 patch] RE: ServiceOwnerChanged wakes up everybody?

[Kimmo.Hamalainen at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext John (J5) Palmieri [mailto:johnp at redhat.com]
> Sent: 14 June, 2005 17:32
> To: Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-M/Helsinki)
> Cc: dbus at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [0.23.4 patch] RE: ServiceOwnerChanged wakes up 
> everybody?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:44 +0300, Kimmo.Hamalainen at nokia.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here's the Anders' patch for the "detail" attribute ported for the
> > D-BUS v0.23.4. Also, a separate patch for dbus-monitor to 
> monitor the attribute.
> > The patch does not have the changelog or specs changes, though.
> > 
> > (I even tested it.)
> > 
> > BR, Kimmo
> 
> Are you guys going to stick with 0.23?  I would offer help to 
> move your
> apps to 0.3x on my free time.  I think it is important we don't give
> people a reason to target 0.2x as the more apps that use it means the
> more porting that will have to be done later.

I would gladly move to 0.3x if it would have proven stable. Actually, we
are using a modified 0.23.1, because update to 0.23.4 introduced some
nasty bugs that we don't have time or resources to fix. Even between
0.23.1 and 0.23.4 there was something like 1000 lines of new code, containing
new locking code etc. Multithreaded code is not particularly fast to stabilise :)

Diff between 0.23.1 and 0.3x is probably even bigger, not to speak about
last-minute API changes in virtually every program. Even the current 0.23.1
had some deadlock issue with GnomeVFS, but we decided to work around it in
GnomeVFS code than try to fix thread locking in D-BUS.

However, we probably use 0.3x in future products. New Maemo releases aren't
required to be backwards compatible with old ones.

BR, Kimmo

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