[Portland] Re: new dbus-qt3 compatible(api) with former dbus-qt3 bindings?

[Rex Dieter]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 15:41, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Kevin Krammer wrote:
>>> It needs a current version of my Qt3 backport of an earlier version of
>>> the Qt4 bindings, hosted at KDE SVN [1]
>>>
>>> [1] http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/dbus-qt4-qt3backport/
>>> [2] http://people.freedesktop.org/~krake/dapi/dbus-qt3_0.3.tar.bz2
>> Stupid question: Are these dbus-qt3 bindings compatible (api-wise) with
>> those that used to be distributed in the main dbus tarball (before
>> getting ripped out post after dbus-0.61)?
> 
> No, the original D-Bus bindings were more a draft than an actual 
> implementation and very limited in functionality.
...
> I am not sure anything is actually using the old bindings, since they are not 
> compatible with any more recent D-Bus version.

Unfortunately, there are still a handful of apps(1) that do (want to 
anyway) use the old-style bindings, which is what prompted my question.

-- Rex

(1) k3b, kpowersave, knetworkmanager