Starting the kdbus discussions

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 3 de janeiro de 2014 13:18:05, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > Ryan is doing the porting work for gdbus, and the Samsung guys are doing
> > the porting work for libdbus1. With that in place, we have support from
> > all three libs.
> 
> Regarding libdbus and the D-Bus Specification: "freedesktop.org bug, or
> it didn't happen".

The libdbus-1 one is on me. I'll get the Samsung guys to present their work.

> If the normative description of GVariant serialization is not itself
> part of the D-Bus Specification, and the D-Bus spec just says "see this
> other document" that's OK, but in that case I would like the "other
> document" to be at least as formal as the D-Bus Specification itself: so
> something with version-numbered releases, a changelog, and a stable,
> non-vendor-specific URL that doesn't point to someone's personal
> public_html or similar.
> 
> I'd prefer it to live in either dbus.git, glib.git or systemd.git, and
> be uploaded to freedesktop.org (or maybe gnome.org in its role as "home
> of GLib").

Referring to an external document is fine and I actually want to see us refer 
to the prior art in GVariant, giving credit where it is due (mostly to Ryan).

However, if we wish to standardise on it, the spec to be used for D-Bus needs 
to move out of glib.git & gnome.org and into dbus.git & freedesktop.org. Any 
changes to the spec need to be discussed in this community, as a neutral and 
central place. For two reasons, mostly:

a) to avoid unilateral changes, whether intentional or merely by accident
b) to give a more formal blessing of the common and neutral structure that 
    fd.o is supposed to be

PS: if it isn't clear, I support the move to the new marshalling format.

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