D-Bus requirements of knm-0.7

[Michael Biebl]

Helmut Schaa schrieb:
> Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2007 12:21:57 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> Kevin Krammer schrieb:
>>> I had hoped the bindings would get used by projects using D-Bus on KDE3,
>>> but unfortunately adding them to the D-Bus bindings page and blogging
>>> about them a couple of times doesn't have been enough marketing and
>>> projects like KDE bluetooth put quite some effort into using low-level
>>> D-Bus with basic event loop integratation instead :-/
>>>
>>> KNetworkManager is AFAIK probably the only real project using it right
>>> now. This has improved finding bugs tremendously.
>>>
>>> If any packager needs anything changed please be free to contact me
>>> directly at any time.
>> I don't want to sound negative, but given the fact that KDE4 is around
>> the corner and as you said, almost every project using the old-style qt3
>> dbus bindings, do you think it's still worth the effort to work on this
>> new qt3 dbus bindings (and porting knm to it)?
>> Please consider that this will add additional workload for all
>> distributions, which now have to package two qt3-dbus libraries.
>> Are the advantages of this "new" qt3-dbus bindings so compelling to
>> justify this?
> 
> Yes!
> 
> I first tried to use the old qt3 bindings but _every_ simple API change 
> introduced by NM threw me back some hours. Using Kevins DBus-bindings a lot 
> of work is done automatically (generating proxys and interfaces).
> 

Ok, then. In this case it would be nice to have a new dbus-qt3 release
where dbusxml2qt3 is included and properly hooked up in the Makefile.
I'll just package it along with knm-0.7 for Debian.

Cheers,
Michael

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