GDbus new bindings

[Colin Walters]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Dean Jenkins <djenkins at mvista.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 21 July 2010 16:24, David Zeuthen <zeuthen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> Perhaps you could explain the difference between GDBus and glib-dbus ?

There's a motivation/migration guide in progress here:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/docs/reference/gio/migrating-gdbus.xml

> Is glib-dbus dead

It will be kept on life support for some time.

> and is GDBus the new thing in town.

Definitely.

> Or are they both
> separate entities in their own right ?
>
> Are their any advantages of GDBus over glib-dbus ?

A lot, yes.  Mainly GVariant is significantly saner than using magic
on GType, and the design for threading actually works.