PolicyKit releases and !AWOL

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi David,

>> The PK changelog mentions as highlight, that the glib dependency  
>> was removed.
>> Instead you implemented your on sortof glib, called libkit.
>> I don't see the real benefit here, smells a bit of NIH. glib is a
>> rather well tested lib and already used in the utopia stack. Could  
>> you
>> elaborate a bit on that decision?
>
> Sure. Two things.
>
> First, in order for libpolkit to be useful in projects like dbus
> (specifically the bus) and X.org it needs to handle OOM. And glib  
> can't
> do that; the glib API is not designed to do that. And that's fine.

you know that GLib has g_try_malloc and friends? These can be used to  
detect OOM.

> Seriously, libkit is 4700 lines of C including 100% doc coverage and  
> 91%
> test coverage. It's hardly reinventing glib.

I haven't reviewed your libkit at all, but be careful with it. The  
BlueZ project tried to avoid GLib and now we have eglib which is  
basically a stripped down GLib. Starting with the next major version  
number I am going back to GLib since the maintenance overhead of eglib  
is too much. It started out very small and simple, but over time this  
changed.

Regards

Marcel