D-Bus 1.3.0 released

Marcel Holtmann marcel at holtmann.org
Mon Aug 24 04:01:29 PDT 2009


Hi Thiago,

> >> > Together with the at_console stuff mentioned by Lennart this could
> >> > become 1.3.2 and then we should be focusing on stabilizing it for
> >> > the final 1.4 release.
> >>
> >> I'm a bit more skeptical about the at_console stuff. Some more input
> >> from the distros on whether they use it or not would be nice.
> >
> >personally I think that leaving at_console in for 1.4 and cleaning it up
> >would be the best. And then target the removal for the 1.6 release.
> >
> >If the discussion about at_console would delay the 1.4 release, then I
> >vote for leaving that out for now. It is more important to get the 1.4
> >release out so we can actually profit from the new features.
> 
> I don't want my personal problems and bad experience with Polkit to 
> influence the decision. I just want to make sure that we're doing the right 
> thing: if depending on polkit will break distros because they haven't set 
> up polkit correctly, then we should rethink.
> 
> In any case, you seem to be in a rush to get the 1.4 release out. I'd like 
> to get at least one binding supporting fd-passing before we release -- 
> preferably two. And at least get it tested with a non-libdbus 
> implementation.
> 
> I'm trying to find the time to do it for QtDBus. Who can implement it for 
> dbus-glib? How about Python?
> 
> Matthew, are you planning on implementing the feature on Java? How about 
> the feature negotiation, is that planned at all?
> 
> Alp, how about N-Desk D-Bus?

what is the status here? It seems to be stuck again for over two weeks
with no visual feedback on the mailing list.

Regards

Marcel




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