C-API Examples

[Havoc Pennington]

Ralf Habacker wrote:
> I recognized that some core tools like dbus-monitor uses the glib 
> mainloop. What does this means relating to the binding split from the 
> core ?
> If glib will be a requirement for the core library, than on windows glib 
> will be a requirement for dbus, which would not be good at all.
> If glib will not be a requirement, a dbus only mainloop has to be 
> implemented for unix and windows.
> 

I don't really consider dbus-monitor a "core tool", it's just a 
debugging hack more or less. There's already a crappy main loop 
abstraction used by dbus-daemon that dbus-monitor could use (or for that 
matter dbus-monitor could just be blocking, I don't know why it isn't, 
I'm surprised it isn't really ... don't have the source handy to look)

Anyhow, I would oppose public API offering a "dbus main loop" (for 
obvious reasons) but using the existing dbus main loop for stuff that 
ships with dbus is of course feasible.

Havoc