D-Bus problem

Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Fri May 18 21:26:14 BST 2007


Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> On 18.05.07 17:06:15, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>   
>> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>     
>>> The problem we're having is that kio slaves don't work on windows
>>> anymore and the reason seems to be that name resolving doesn't work
>>> anymore. I already tried reverting all changes up to may 10th, but that
>>> didn't help. I know now for sure the change that broke this was
>>> introduced between april 26th and a week or two ago. (I created a
>>> kdevelop4 screenshot on windows at that date)
>>>       
>> KNetwork (now K3Network) has never been supported on Windows. That's one 
>> of the reasons why we're moving to QtNetwork.
>>
>> I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do now. Code using KNetwork should be 
>> considered non-portable to Windows. And currently, KIO is so. My plan is 
>> to rewrite KIO::Connection so that it's portable. I will have time for 
>> that at aKademy, along with the KSSL work.
>>     
>
> But what changed after April 26nd, that makes kio not work anymore? I
> mean kio_file (at least) did work perfectly fine before, also this is
> not about kio making a connection to another host, this is about the
> communication IP socket between the slave and klauncher (or kdeinit, not
> sure atm).
>   
Neither the one nor the other. The not working IP socket communication 
is between the kio master and the kio slave and is used to transport 
commands to the slave and return status to the master. 

Ralf





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