[Bug 28866] Allow channel requesters to associate metadata with requests for the benefit of other clients

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28866

--- Comment #20 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-11-15 04:36:32 PST ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > Should we explicitly say that the CD will never interpret Hints? I think we
> > should, and I've added a commit that says so.
> > 
> > While we're adding new ways to request channels, should we add an a{sv}
> > placeholder for extra arguments that the channel dispatcher *does* interpret?
> > (Obviously, this is unnecessary if you convince me that my previous assertion
> > was wrong.)
> 
> I think we can just say that Hints isn't interpreted by the CD for now; later,
> if we want, we can add properly-namespaced hints that it does interpret.

That means reverting my commit claiming that the CD will never interpret Hints,
and instead leaving it undefined; but if you feel that that's better, OK. I'll
try to sort out an updated branch for this on the next train.

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