C convenience lib (was Re: Is dbus_pending_call_set_notify() thread safe?)

[Thiago Macieira]

Replying in multiple mails

Havoc Pennington wrote:
>1)
>
>So I think it would be OK for a library or plugin to assume "something
>will dispatch the session bus connection" and that would work fine, with
>no direct dependency on say dbus-glib. All a lib/plugin really has to
>know is that something will be doing the read/write/dispatch task.
>
>Contradicting my previous mail a bit, conceivably this allows some
>simple plugins or libraries to avoid caring about the main loop, though
>it would only work if the plugin never needed a main loop for any
>_other_ dbus-unrelated reason.

I agree that would be nice to have.

I also think it's not a feasible idea. The plugin/library has to require 
that from the application. Which in turn makes it impossible to use said 
plugin/library from a bare-bones application. It would have to do the 
dispatching itself or link to a binding. This changes the requirements 
for the library/plugin itself (i.e., you can't add D-Bus as a new backend 
in an existing library).

Besides, this is a contradiction with "the binding can take over the 
shared connection and do whatever it pleases with it".

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