C++ Bindings

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2013 11.20.24, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     I'm starting to evaluate whether dbus is the right solution for my
> project.  As I understand it, rather than trying to build an application
> directly on top of libdbus, I should use one of the bindings found here:
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings
> 
>     There are two recommended C++ bindings, dbus-c++ and dbus-cxx.  Is one
> of these particularly recommended over the other?  

I'd say neither is recommended at this point.

> I noticed that the last
> release of dbus-cxx was over 3 years ago, so I'm wondering if it is still
> actively being maintained.
> 
>     Also, what is particularly painful about building an application on top
> of libdbus itself?  It seems that I may be faced with the choice of using a
> potentially buggy binding which is no longer maintained, or using the core
> library which might make implementation more difficult.  Its not
> immediately clear to me which way to go at this point.

You're right, but there's a third alternative: use another binding, which is 
maintained.

GDBus and QtDBus are actively maintained.

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