On 7/19/05, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey guys, > > In the intrest of getting API's out that more reflect what we will see > in D-Bus 1.0 I am toying with the idea of upgrading FC4 to the same > version in Rawhide. This does not effect the lowlevel D-Bus libraries > except for fixing a couple of bugs. What this does is give a more > usable GLib and Python bindings. > > What this also does is break apps using those bindings. GLib is a > pretty big change but then again this is the first release we thought > was good enough for mass consumption. > > Python itself is changed in a number of ways but mostly when creating a > service. Clients on the bus who just fire off blocking messages should > have no changes needed. Clients who still need a mainloop will simply > have to import dbus.glib. > > With FC5 a ways off I think it is more important to get wide use of > these API's as they will most likely be than to keep compatability with > the 0.33 bindings. I'm not promising API's won't change but we are now > in the mode where we are trying to keep them relitivly the same. > > The purpose of this mail is to find out if there are any third party > apps that use the GLib or Python bindings that are packaged for or with > FC4 and if those developers would object to this upgrade. The real > question is would you like the pain now or later? :-) I'll put a tarball > in testing sometime this week. > > I say rip the bandade, but that is just me. The GLib bindings shouldn't > have seen much use as of yet and the Python bindings are mostly used for > clients of which requires a one or twoline change when using a mainloop. > I'm not aware of any production code that uses the Python bindings as a > server. Plus with the new bindings the tutorials of fd.o > (http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-tutorial.html) will actually match > what is in FC-4. > > Thanks, > -- > John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > How about dropping it into update-testing and let those of use that use that, report back bugs or anything else we run across? -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list