[packagekit] Things that need fixing

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 09:53:08 PST 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:45 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> I've looked at this a bit more, and it looks pretty feasible to have
> the engine send arrays over dbus instead of strings.

Agree.

> Or, we could just spooge together the package definitions with
> yet-another-separator.

Na, I think this is a sane place to change the type to as from s.

> The other question is, do we keep the single-package methods and add
> multi-package methods, or just change all of the single-package methods
> so they handle arrays of packages?  I prefer the latter.

Same, although it's no small job.

>   We might need to change some of the signals returned so we specify what package we're
> talking about.

Why? Unless I'm mistaken, all the signals should already have
package_id's in the return type that could cause confusion.

Richard.





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