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[Thiago Macieira]

Matthew Johnson wrote:
>On Sat Aug 09 20:48, smog zer wrote:
>> >> Feature negotiation has to be end-to-end, over the bus daemon.
>> >> That's a huge problem because you would have to negotiate with all
>> >> your peers.
>> >
>> > I hadn't even thought of that... does seem like a mess.
>> >
>> > There's a simple workaround in the case of DBUS_TYPE_FLOAT - either
>> > send it as a double or send it as a byte array. If you're doing 3D
>> > vertices over dbus that probably is not outrageously more low-level
>> > than your app already is.
>> >
>> > Havoc
>>
>> Why care with negotiations, just add it now while the "iron is still
>> hot" and dbus does not have that many wire protocol implementations,
>> and then notify the current wire protocol library maintainers.
>
>It's interesting to note that of the three current implementations
>(mine: java, alp's: .net and the reference one) libdbus is the only one
>which does _not_ support float...

Have you implemented code to detect whether you can send floats to the 
other side?

If you haven't, I'd argue it's an incomplete solution.

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