dbus-python 0.80.0, the "Everything changes" release

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Wed Jan 24 08:08:01 PST 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 15:57 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
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> dbus-python 0.80 is now available.
> 
> Downloads
> =========
>  
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/dbus-python-0.80.0.tar.gz
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/dbus-python-0.80.0.tar.gz.asc
> 
> Updated documentation: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
> 
> Although the API contains incompatible changes, most dbus-python
> programs will continue to work (possibly with warnings). I've been in
> touch with the authors of some of the dbus-python apps known to have
> problems (Gajim, GnomeOSD).
> 
> Changes between 0.80rc4 and 0.80.0 final
> ========================================
> 
> * Install dbus-python.h in $includedir/dbus-1.0/dbus, the same place
>   libdbus and dbus-glib put their headers
> 
> * Improve logic for detecting whether to build documentation
> 
> * Remove various desirable-but-unnecessary rst2html flags if not supported
> 
> * Don't insist on such a new version of dbus (0.93, as in Ubuntu 6.10 and FC6,
>   should be fine - our "make check" passes in Ubuntu 6.10)

FC6 actually uses 1.0.1 with 1.0.2 backport patches :-)

Nice work.  Will be putting this into Rawhide soon.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>



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