[packagekit] Branching today

[Matthias Klumpp]

This sounds great!
I'll probably manage to write the missing bits today, but if this
doesn't work they'll be ready tomorrow :)
Branching is also good so we'll have a stable branch (PK 0.7.x) in
Debian Wheezy, which will be frozen in June.
Cheers,
    Matthias

2012/5/31 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> Today I'm going to branch master so that I can merge on some more
> invasive features. Basically, I'm trying to make the code smaller and
> faster.
>
> The general things I'm planning to do initially:
>
> * Add a uint bitfield to the transaction methods, so we can have
> UpdatePackages(FLAG_SIMULATE, foo;bar) rather than both
> SimulateUpdatePackages(foo;bar) and UpdatePackages(foo;bar).
> * Add some more flags to the bitfield above to do things like
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates
> * Get rid of a lot of the uint -> string -> uint parsing -- there's no
> need to push "English" strings over DBus and using the raw constants
> will improve both throughput and latency.
> * Get ximion to merge his system cache plugin
> * Port more of the PkBackend stuff to vfuncs which for Details is
> about a 2x speedup (I've asked ximion nicely for that patch :)
>
> Other ideas welcome. Long term I want to convert to using
> GDbusObjectServer, but we need to make the code a bit more manageable
> first.
>
> Richard.
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