Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] D-Bus interfaces
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Phil Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
Cc: Fred Sch??ttgen <bluez-devel@schaettgen.de>,
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Date: 16 Feb 2004 16:36:15 +0100

Hi Phil,

> > I can only speak from my experience with dcop, but I would try to use standard 
> > types whereever it's possible. In case that there exists a d-bus counterpart 
> > to the dcop command line utility (dbus-send maybe?), it would make the bluez 
> > interface more accessible for scripts.
> 
> Yes, agreed.  In my experiments with D-BUS and BlueZ so far, I've been
> using a simple byte array for the address.  Encoding it as an ASCII
> string would be another possibility, but this would generally make the
> marshalling/unmarshalling process more expensive, and doesn't really
> gain you anything.

btw I tried to integrate the D-Bus patch for the PIN-Helper, but got
compilation errors with the libraries from Debian Sid. Has anyone used
this patch on Debian Sid?

Regards

Marcel


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