[Telepathy-commits] [telepathy-spec/master] Document that HandlerChannelFilter is read-only, and note that we need to work out how to handle upgrades

[Simon McVittie]

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 spec/Client_Channel_Handler.xml |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spec/Client_Channel_Handler.xml b/spec/Client_Channel_Handler.xml
index 455c3aa..d13f822 100644
--- a/spec/Client_Channel_Handler.xml
+++ b/spec/Client_Channel_Handler.xml
@@ -43,13 +43,18 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
       <p>FIXME: interaction with automatically created channels?</p>
     </tp:docstring>
 
-    <property name="HandlerChannelFilter" type="v">
+    <property name="HandlerChannelFilter" type="v" access="read">
       <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
         <p>A specification of the channels that this channel handler can
           deal with. It will be offered to approvers as a potential
           channel handler for bundles that contain only suitable channels,
           or for suitable channels that must be handled separately.</p>
 
+        <p>This property never changes while the channel-handler process is
+          running. (FIXME: it can change due to upgrades - how do we tell
+          the channel dispatcher about this? Make it inotify on the .client
+          file?)</p>
+
         <p>For channel handlers that have a .client file, the channel
           dispatcher may discover this property from the
           [org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.ChannelHandler.DRAFT] section of
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