Re: Seeking the maintainer of dbus-python

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:06 AM Martin Kolman <mkolman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 16:44 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Martin Kolman wrote:
> > > the rather new (F32+) pure-Python dasbus DBus library
> >
> > LOL, don't you love fake German? ^^
> > (Actual German would be "Der Bus", not "Das Bus". ;-) )
> We are aware of that & and it indeed is fake German on purpose. :)
>
> >
> > And the library is not really pure-Python, it uses GLib (including, as far
> > as I can tell, GLib/GIO's D-Bus protocol implementation, at least I see uses
> > of it in connection.py).
> I should have been more concrete - it is pure Python as in not containing
> C extension code that wold have to be compiled, but it indeed uses GLib for
> the low level DBus protocol handling.
>
> I wonder if this is an actual problem on Fedora ? I would assume many system services
> and applications depend on GLib, so using dasbus should not pull on extra dependencies
> in practice.
>

It's a problem only if the GLib main loop leaks into the consumer of
the library. If it does, then it could cause problems if there's a
mixture of incompatible event handling mechanisms. I've had problems
with that in the past with other libraries.



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