2008-04-03 20:37:07

by Marc-André Lureau

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Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] [BlueZ-Announce] Release of bluez-libs-3.30 and bluez-utils-3.30

Hi!

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]> wrot=
e:
>
> After a long discussion, the consensus was to use plugins instead of
> separate processes for the future of BlueZ. This release marks the start
> of this change. All existing services have been converted to plugins
> while keeping the old D-Bus API.

I am just being curious, I'd like to know why the separate processes
approach was dropped.

Thanks a lot for the good work&news!

cheers,
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Marc-Andr=E9 Lureau

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2008-04-03 20:53:40

by Johan Hedberg

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Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] [BlueZ-Announce] Release of bluez-libs-3.30 and bluez-utils-3.30

On Apr 3, 2008, at 23:37, Marc-Andr=E9 Lureau wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann =

> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> After a long discussion, the consensus was to use plugins instead of
>> separate processes for the future of BlueZ. This release marks the =

>> start
>> of this change. All existing services have been converted to plugins
>> while keeping the old D-Bus API.
>
> I am just being curious, I'd like to know why the separate processes
> approach was dropped.

It isn't of course the whole story (Marcel will probably fill up with =

more reasons), but the following is a table of the pros/cons of each =

approach that we created couple of weeks ago when planing the 4.x =

work: http://iki.fi/jhedberg/plugin-vs-process.jpg

Johan
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