dbus remaining windows port issues was Re: moving file descriptor passing into a header

[Fridrich Strba]

Actually, as for us in the GNOME world, it is used in evolution and it
seems to work quite ok. We seem to be also bitten time to time with the
#2 problem, so we are happy to see that Romain wants to sell his house
to fix it :)

BTW: would it be possible to try another 1.3.x release tarball. I have
in my repositories
<http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/> a 1.3.0 version with a huge patch bringing it to the current master level. And I would not mind to replace it with a fresh blood.

Cheers

Fridrich

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 11:06 +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: 
> Colin Walters schrieb:
> <snip>
> > As part of doing this, can someone working on the Windows stuff give
> > me the 1,000 meter overview of where we are on that port with regards
> > to trying to make a real release of the 1.4 tree?
> >   
> dbus-daemon and library is usable for the KDE on windows distribution.
> 
> There are still issues with the the test suite. A few has been already 
> fixed, the other need to be fixed.
> 
> Known Issues:
> 1. bus-test unix related test config files need to be excluded, made 
> cross plattform or need to be duplicated for windows
> 
> Testing valid files:
> ....
>     many-rules.conf
> Unknown username "root" on element <deny>
> Unknown group "root" on element <deny>
> Unknown username "root" on element <deny>
> Unknown group "root" on element <deny>
> ...
>     system.conf
> Unknown username "root" in message bus configuration file
> 
> 
> 2 there is sometime a communication problem between client and server, 
> which are in the same application
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> bin\bus-test: Running SHA1 connection test
> Did not receive a message on 002CD6C0, expecting NameOwnerChanged
> File 
> "G:\Daten\kde\download\svn-src\dbus-freedesktop-src-ssh\bus\dispatch.c" 
> line 701 process 3536 should not have been reached: didn't get the 
> expected NameOwnerChanged (deletion)
>  messages
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> when running bus-test with
> 
> set DBUS_VERBOSE=1
> bin\bus-test 2> error.log
> 
> the problem does not occur.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> bin\bus-test: Running SHA1 connection test
> bin\bus-test: checking for memleaks
> -------------------------------------------------------
> It looks that there is a timing problem between server and client.
> 
> 3. message dispatch problems
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> bin\bus-test: Running message dispatch test
> -> a message windows pops up displaying a message that  test-service.exe 
> could not be correctly initiated (0xc01500004)
> 
> the verbose log contains:
> 
> 3944: [dbus\dbus-connection.c(4272):dbus_connection_get_dispatch_status] 
> UNLOCK
> Did not get the expected org.freedesktop.DBus.TestSuiteEchoService from 
> ListNames
> File 
> "G:\Daten\kde\download\svn-src\dbus-freedesktop-src-ssh\bus\dispatch.c" 
> line 4564 process 3944 should not have been reached: ListActivatableNames
>  message failed
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> that's all for now.
> 
> Regards
>  Ralf
> 
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