Return-Path: From: Sjoerd Simons To: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] HCID D-Bus Message-ID: <20050909132940.GE17543@spring.luon.net> References: <1126220839.5286.57.camel@blade> <5256d0b050909012577fcb19c@mail.gmail.com> <1126258645.5227.16.camel@blade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1126258645.5227.16.camel@blade> Sender: bluez-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: BlueZ development List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:29:40 +0200 On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:37:25AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Pete, > > > I think 0.5 is compatible with >0.35. The current FC4 only uses 0.33 > > and I don't think its compatible with > 0.35. I think this is similar > > for a number of the current releases (I think most with gnome 2.10) > > but obviously isn't the case for the development streams that aren't > > releases yet. > > having 0.33 is better than 0.23 and this is what Debian unstable still > uses. However lets make a list of the distributions: > > SuSE Linux 10.0 D-Bus 0.35 > Fedora Core 4 D-Bus 0.33 > Ubuntu Breezy D-Bus 0.36 > Debian unstable D-Bus 0.23 Debian experimental D-Bus 0.50 > > The only bad guy is Debian unstable and I don't care anymore. They use > Xorg finally and have GCC 4.0 etc., but they can't move over to the next > D-Bus generation. I think that is their problem now and the release of > bluez-utils-0.22 will definitely drop the support for the old D-Bus 0.23 > version. D-bus >= 0.3x has been in debian experimental for quite some time. There are various transitions going on in debian unstable currently which makes it inappropriate to do a dbus transition now too. > I like to base everything around the current D-Bus 0.50 release, because > the C API should be quite stable now. I will accept small workarounds to > make D-Bus 0.3x work, but as soon as the distributions update their > D-Bus libraries I will drop them. > > This is not a nice thing to do, I know, but a wrong usage of D-Bus lets > hcid segfault and this is not what I want. As one of debian's dbus maintainers i would advise to indeed base everything on dbus >= 0.50. Hopefully it won't take too long before we can move the new dbus from experimental to unstable, so the workarounds for old dbus release are just not worth it. Sjoerd -- He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bluez-devel mailing list Bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-devel