A draft for a standard for desktop configuration

[Philip Van Hoof]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:52 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Avery Pennarun wrote:
> 
> > The trick is just to design the protocol such that it's okay to have both
> > getint() and getstring() work on the same (numeric) value.  You don't want
> > the protocol *enforcing* data types, just *allowing* them as an
> > optimization.
> 
> The Dbus variant can hold any type so essentially we dont have to worry 
> about the type at all. I dont think Philip was trying to include extra 
> type info in the protocol but merely expressing what that variant might 
> contain. Its probably best to remove that from the spec to avoid confusion.

Correct :)


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