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

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 26 January 2007 19:31, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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

Oh, I wasn't aware of this. Since I am using these applications regularily, 
did someone update the old bindings for newer D-Bus?

(I thought they were likely using some kind of convenience library, like 
libhal for HAL access)

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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