DBus API problems & UTF-8

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at trolltech.com
Mon Jun 12 07:00:04 PDT 2006


Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
>I would prefer a numeric value (since it's convenient and efficient to
>handle in a switch clause), similar to the C library. How would you do
>the API change then? Because if we just change it, the distributions
>etc. would need to do a syncronised migration to the new API. Easier way
>would be to have the new API co-exist with the old API for some time.

Indeed, which is why I'd rather avoid breaking API compatibility at all, 
wherever possible.

I'm about to put out an 0.62 release, which will be the last before 1.0.

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Thiago José Macieira - thiago.macieira AT trolltech.com
Trolltech ASA - Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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