DeviceKit-power release next Monday

Davide Bettio davide.bettio at kdemail.net
Tue Oct 6 01:17:04 PDT 2009


Hi,

> I noticed that 011 will change its property naming scheme from
> dash-dash to AllCamelCase, which afaics is an D-Bus API break.

Yes, it is.
We need AllCamelCase due to Qt compatibility issues.

> Eg. libdevkit-power-gobject 010 and DeviceKit-power 011 will not work
> together (in case someone does a partial package upgrade).

You must use the same version for both.

> (I'm not sure how you do the package split in Fedora, but for
> Debian/Ubuntu where we have separate packages for DK-power and
> libdevkit-power-gobject this will be a PITA)
> Now that DK-disks and DK-power are more and more widely used, such API
> changes become and issue.

devkit* api is unstable and it will be unstable for a long time...

> How will that be handled in the future? When can we expect a stable (D-
> Bus) API?

As I know there isn't any plan about API stabilization.

Bye,
Davide Bettio.




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