[Telepathy] Account.Interface.ChannelRequests

[Dafydd Harries]

Ar 24/11/2008 am 13:04, ysgrifennodd Alberto Mardegan:
> - Performance: The ChannelDispatcher object is not necessary, and the 
> ChannelRequest is a good thing only in theory: with its Proceed() method and the 
> need to connect to the Failed and Succeeded signals, I'm afraid it's making 
> things slower.

Signals don't need to be connected each time, you can just add a message filter
that match on interface + signal name, which has a one-off setup cost. This is
assuming that libdbus-glib lets you do this in a sane way, of course.

> The TP spec is IMHO just more beautiful, but I don't think that APIs should be 
> judged on the such criteria; I consider its channel requesting API inconvenient, 
> even though of course it can be wrapped in a nicer library.

I think beauty, conveneince and performance are all good criteria for judging
an API. The difficulty is in achieving a good compromise.

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Dafydd