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* doc/TODO: Knock off some GLib items with this patch. * glib/dbus-gvalue-utils.c (_dbus_gtype_can_signal_error) (_dbus_gvalue_signals_error): New functions. * glib/dbus-gvalue-utils.h: Prototype them. * glib/dbus-gobject.c (arg_iterate): Update to handle return vals and change to not output const/retval flags for input args. All callers updated. (invoke_object_method): Refactor to handle return values. Add some more comments in various places. Remove debug g_print. * glib/dbus-binding-tool-glib.h (DBUS_GLIB_ANNOTATION_RETURNVAL): New. * glib/dbus-binding-tool-glib.c (dbus_g_type_get_marshal_name): Handle G_TYPE_NONE. (compute_gsignature): New function; refactored from code from compute_marshaller and compute_marshaller_name. Enhance to handle return values and async ops more cleanly. Update for async ops returning NONE instead of BOOLEAN. (compute_marshaller, compute_marshaller_name): Call compute_gsignature and output appropriate string. (generate_glue): Handle return value annotation. Also don't dump constness flag for input arguments. * glib/Makefile.am (DBUS_GLIB_INTERNALS): New variable; contains files shared between installed library and utilities. (libdbus_glib_1_la_SOURCES): Move some stuf into DBUS_GLIB_INTERNALS. (libdbus_gtool_la_SOURCES): Suck in DBUS_GLIB_INTERNALS so the binding tool can access gtype utility functions. * test/glib/test-service-glib.c: * test/glib/test-service-glib.xml: * test/glib/test-dbus-glib.c: Add some tests for return values. |
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D-BUS is a simple IPC library based on messages. See also the file HACKING for notes of interest to developers working on D-BUS. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for lots of documentation, mailing lists, etc. Note === A core concept of the D-BUS implementation is that "libdbus" is intended to be a low-level API, similar to Xlib. Most programmers are intended to use the bindings to GLib, Qt, Python, Mono, Java, or whatever. These bindings have varying levels of completeness. Configuration flags === These are the dbus-specific configuration flags that can be given to the ./configure program. --enable-qt enable Qt-friendly client library --enable-glib enable GLib-friendly client library --enable-mono enable mono bindings --enable-mono-docs build mono documentation (requires monodoc) --enable-tests enable unit test code --enable-ansi enable -ansi -pedantic gcc flags --enable-verbose-mode support verbose debug mode --enable-asserts include assertion checks --enable-checks include sanity checks on public API --enable-docs build documentation (requires Doxygen and jade) --enable-gcov compile with coverage profiling instrumentation (gcc only) --enable-python build python bindings (reqires Pyrex >= 0.9) --with-xml=libxml/expat XML library to use --with-init-scripts=redhat Style of init scripts to install --with-session-socket-dir=dirname Where to put sockets for the per-login-session message bus --with-test-socket-dir=dirname Where to put sockets for make check --with-system-pid-file=pidfile PID file for systemwide daemon --with-system-socket=filename UNIX domain socket for systemwide daemon API/ABI Policy === D-BUS API/ABI and protocol necessarily remain in flux until we are sure it will meet the various needs it's intended to meet. This means we need to see some significant sample usage in the contexts of GNOME, KDE, desktop applications, and systemwide uses such as print queue monitoring, hotplug events, or whatever. We need the flexibility to incorporate feedback from this sample usage. Once we feel confident in the protocol and the API, we will release a version 1.0. At that point, the intent is: - The protocol will never be broken again; any message bus should work with any client forever. However, extensions are possible where the protocol is extensible. - If the library API is modified incompatibly, we will rename it as in http://ometer.com/parallel.html - in other words, it will always be possible to compile against and use the older API, and apps will always get the API they expect. Until 1.0 is released, feedback that requires API changes may be incorporated into D-BUS. This may break the API, the ABI, the protocol, or all three. To avoid a huge soname, the plan is to increment the soname only between official stable releases, not with every development snapshot. Versions numbered 0.x are considered development snapshots. Until 1.0 is released, you have to define -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE just as a safety check to be sure everyone is aware of this API/ABI policy and has the right expectations. We do need people to test the APIs, so please do use the development snapshots of D-BUS. They are intended to work and we do actively address bugs. However, if you're shipping a commercial binary-only application that needs to keep running on M future versions of N operating systems, you might want to include your own copy of D-BUS rather than relying on the installed copy, for example.