Re: moving to dbus 0.3x asthe target version for G2.12 [was Re: DBus in G2.12]

[Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:23 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> [Moving this off r-t to a broader group that might have more feedback on this :)
> 
> On 6/10/05, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > On Fri, June 10, 2005 15:22, Ross Burton said:
> > > I think the release team need to make a statement about what version of
> > > DBus is to be used for any code which can use DBus.  At present I
> > > believe gnome-vfs and HAL in CVS are using the DBus 0.3x API, whereas
> > > nautilus-cd-burn is still using 0.2x.  As these cannot be easily used at
> > > the same time, this needs to be resolved one way or another.
> > 
> > Good point. I think that the distributors that will ship 2.12 will use
> > DBus 0.3x. Going with the DBus 0.3x API looks like the more sensible
> > solution to me. Is there any reason to stay with the 0.2x API?
> 
> Yeah, I don't know of any reason not to standardize on 0.3x- most
> things have already ported AFAICS. d-d-l, anyone object to requiring
> everyone to move to 0.3x? (I'm assuming no, but...)
> 
> Luis

As distribution packager, I already followed the DBUS 0.3x road once,
and it went dead because it seems only gnome and freedesktop are picking
up the new APIs. How will interoperability with other programs, like for
example, KDE look in the near future with DBUS 0.3x?
As it looks now, I can't provide prerelease packages to our users
without breaking KDE for them, which is bad (I build gnome-vfs without
DBUS in my prerelease packages, but I don't think that option will last
very long)