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

[Thiago Macieira]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
>7)
>
>This whole conversation may be relevant to people who are wanting to
>have the binding own the message queue and the marshaling.
>
>i.e. there was this discussion at GUADEC (see my notes from there) about
>offering an API that just created the socket and did the auth protocol,
>then returned a file descriptor.
>
>Then allow bindings to parse and build messages, avoiding the
>queue/object-tree in DBusConnection and avoiding the DBusMessage object.

You've just described how QtDBus uses libdbus, except we do use 
DBusMessage to do the marshalling and demarshalling.

If the queue, the object tree and the multiple filters were torn from 
DBusConnection, we wouldn't notice at all.

-- 
  Thiago Macieira  -  thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
    PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint:
    E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C  966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/attachments/20070802/ed0fb514/attachment.pgp