Re: gnome-keyring should use DBus for discovery

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:27 +0000, Rob Taylor wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > I don't like using dbus-glib-1. That is an ABI unstable library that we
> > don't want to use at this level of the stack. (It would make all gnome
> > apps depend on an unstable library...) The way I solve this in gvfs is
> > to have a copy-paste of the mainloop integration (actually I made my own
> > version).
> >
> 
> This raises an interesting point - how can we get dbus-glib to the
> usablilty it should be? I could make it ABI stable right now, if needed,
> but there's still an awful lot that should change, especially in terms
> of being able to demarshal into types of the users choosing. Maybe we
> could make the next dbus-glib a 1.0 release with proper shlib
> versioning, and branch for a 2.0 version which makes it more usable.
> 
> Opinions?

For lowlevel libraries like this we really only need the glib mainloop
integration. Of course, having that in a library by itself might be a
bit overkill. Maybe we can put just the glib integration in a static
library?

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