dbus mini-summit at Desktop Summit 2011

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 10 de August de 2011 18:30:33 Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > • Split dbus-glib's mainloop integration out and put it in libdbus.
> >
> > 
> >
> > I don't know if this is what you meant here, but Havoc has said before,
> > and I  support him, that libdbus-1 shall not link to glib. QtDBus cannot
> > rely on the glib integration.
> 
> I think the intention here is that the dbus source package would build
> a small, separate libdbus-gmain-1 if GLib is installed/enabled/whatever;
> libdbus-1 would continue to be main-loop-agnostic, but distribution packages
> would (in practice) build-depend on GLib, build both libraries, and emit
> them as separate binary packages (or subpackages if you like RPM).
> 
> I personally think that makes more sense than introducing a new source
> package (tarball release, git repo, etc.) just for the GLib main loop
> integration, particularly since I'm already using that for many libdbus
> regression tests, but if you still strongly object, we could do a tiny
> parallel project for libdbus-gmain-1...

No, that's fine, as long as packagers are fine with it.

That means glib itself cannot depend on D-Bus. Ever again.

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