dbus-glib - removing the generated bus method wrappers
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Mon Jul 24 15:53:08 PDT 2006
Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Which brings me to a point raised before: can we define a standard
> installation dir for D-Bus interface files? We've got quite a few of them
> in KDE already and we'd like to install them.
>
I think someone just needs to think this through and add stuff to the
spec. Some thoughts (all half-baked):
- installed files should be like from Introspect(), which differ from
the .xml files people are using to generate e.g. glib bindings. i.e. we
don't want the "code generation hints" crap about what to name the C
functions, or really anything binding-specific, IMO for a variety of
reasons.
- every other "big directory o' text files" we ever specified ended up
needing some type of binary cache ...
- when should people use these and when should they use introspection?
(my take: installed files are intended for "-devel packages" i.e. should
not be expected to exist on a user's system, only for purposes of
building static stuff)
- maybe more broadly, just briefly note some of the use cases
But anyhow, it needs thinking through, writing up the thinking through,
discussion, merge discussion into writeup, create patch for spec.
Havoc
More information about the dbus
mailing list