Fwd: Circular calls with DBUS

[Rob Taylor]

Brian Mattern wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:30:07PM +0000, Rob Taylor wrote:
>> Note that only code providing objects on the bus needs to use async
>> calling, normal clients can still use synchronous calls.
> 
> I have to disagree. I'm currently working on some dbus bindings for use
> in e17. The entire window manager runs as a single thread, so
> synchronous calls are avoided wherever possible. For single purpose
> processes blocking generally isn't an issue, and keeps things simple.
> But, in the context of a larger app, I would argue that everything
> should be async. (I don't want my WM/music player/etc to rely on the
> quick response time of a daemon to keep functioning).
> 
> Most of the c convenience libraries for dbus apis only provide blocking
> calls, which makes them unusable for our purposes. Fortunately though,
> providing our own async wrappings of these apis isn't a whole lot of
> work.
> 
> Anyway, I guess the validity of your statement depends on what you mean
> by 'normal clients' :)
> 
> Take care,
> Brian Mattern

I was talking strictly of necessity.. As I said in a follow up, it makes
sense to encourage async usage everywhere for glib based code, at least.

Thanks,
Rob Taylor