DBus properties naming rules

Mon Sep 7 16:53:15 PDT 2009

On September 7, 2009, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 16:53 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > i also don't see the necessity for more character variety in property
> > names than in signals, methods or other identifiers in a D-Bus service.
> > what's the use case, exactly, beyond preserving existing malformed
> > services?
> 
> They are not malformed. They are perfectly conforming to the current
> spec.

sorry, i meant "preserve existing services that would be malformed"? 

(i just flew in last night from 9 timezones to the right; language begins to 
elude me for a day or two after doing that)

> You are trying to push a deficiency of your dbus implementation in
> the spec...

technically it's not mine: it's the DBus implementation we use. and yes, we've 
talked with the upstream responsible for this implementation already. 

but more importantly than technicalities, you addressed precisely zero of the 
issues i raised in the original email. instead, you replied to my last 
paragraph, complaining about the verbage of it and then didn't even answer the 
question in it.

can i ask you to try again and reply to the points i raised?

> The DeviceKit properties should simply be fixed to conform to the naming
> convention thats stated in the spec, and David said that he'd do so.

that's great news!

it does show we have conventions, however, that don't align with the spec. 
that's very odd and only confirms further in my mind that this is something 
that we really ought to document in the spec itself as part of the 
requirements for well formed names.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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