FWD: Re: Additional callerid [change in Protocol]

[uwesmail2005-lkml at yahoo.de]

Sorry, dropped list. Didn't realize until I saw the archives.
--- uwesmail2005-lkml at yahoo.de schrieb:

> Datum: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:18:12 +0200 (CEST)
> Von:  <uwesmail2005-lkml at yahoo.de>
> Betreff: Re: Additional callerid [change in Protocol]
> An: Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com>
> 
> 
> --- Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> schrieb:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This sort of thing has been discussed a lot in the past. For
> example 
> > Google turns up
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2004-October/001628.html
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2004-October/001662.html
> > I believe there were more recent threads also.
> > 
> Yes, I know. That's why I brought it up. It's a needed feature.
> > In some more recent thread, we decided not to do it for 1.0 at
> least.
> > I can't find that thread, but maybe if someone did cvs log on
> > doc/TODO 
> > to see when we dropped the TODO item they could find it.
> > 
> > The changes you describe would not be compatible, and at this point
> > we 
> > have no plans to make incompatible changes. So if we did decide to
> do
> > 
> > this, it would have to be done in some compatible way.
> > 
> > Adding header fields can be done compatibly, as long as it's OK for
> 
> > older dbus versions to ignore them.
> > 
> The problem is that the fields will be dropped on blocking calls on
> behalf of some called method. And older applications would use the
> new fields if they link libdbus dynamically. They don't have to be
> set (as in setcallerid() or such), they will be maintained
> automatically.
> 
> Something I forgot in the OP: callerid has to be a struct (us).
> A serial isn't worth anything without a sender.
> > Havoc
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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