[Kde-hardware-devel] UPnP support in KDE

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at kde.org
Sat Aug 23 12:08:44 CEST 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Armijn Hemel <armijn at uulug.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 16:33 +0200, Armijn Hemel wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> to those of you who don't know: there was a BoF about UPnP at Akademy.
>> It was agreed that discussion about it would take place here (second to
>> last day of Akademy at 9 AM before a boat trip might not have been the
>> best moment to have a BoF).
>>
>> I have attached the slides of the BoF to this mail and ready to start
>> the discussion.
>>
>> One thing that was mentioned is that we could use GUPnP (www.gupnp.org),
>> work with the GNOME guys to add D-Bus bindings to it and then use just
>> D-Bus.
>
> I have just asked the GUPnP developers if there are D-Bus bindings right
> now in GUPnP. It turns out there are not. I have asked if it would be
> hard to add them.
>
> armijn

I don't think gnome dev's will mind DBUS but just in case they refuse,
what are our other options?

I'm also wondering about portability, does this and other UPnP
libaries work on the other platforms (Windows, OSX, Solaris,
embedded). Or could we consider making the KDE UPnP library a
abstraction layer for the native frameworks?

Bart


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