[RFC] dbus-python API (re)definition

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:50:29PM -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:10:54PM -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> >> A couple of weeks ago I started a new set of python bindings for dbus
> >> using ctypes, they can be found here:
> >>
> >>   http://svn.async.com.br/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pydbus/
> >>
> >> For checking out the tree using subversion, issue this command:
> >>
> >>   svn co svn://svn.async.com.br/pydbus
> >>
> >> They should be considered as a prototype at this point, even so  I think
> >> they serve well as a starting point for future work.
> > 
> > Unfortunately there is one major problem with ctypes - it requires the
> > application in question to have executable stack. 
> 
> Has this been reported upstream [which is Python itself] ?
> ctypes is unlikely to go away now when it's included in Python (2.5 and
> newer), so someone has to fix the problem sooner or later...

I've not reported - not had time to check if its still a problem against
the Pyton 2.5 tree codebase.

Dan.
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