Re: recommended D-Bus version for GNOME releases

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Both assertions and tests mode are following maintainer-mode. I was
> thinking it was best for developers to use dbus with assertions enabled
> (as well as other parts of the stack, like warning as critical for
> glib / gtk), so bad use of dbus are catched early during tests.
>
> Or am I wrong and --enable-checks (which is by default) is enough ?

You are right that developers probably want to enable assertions (for a 
dbus you will install, even for testing, enabling tests has little 
purpose; --enable-tests is only adding the ability to "make check", so 
you only need it if you're hacking on dbus itself)

I just would not enable assertions for something shipped in a real 
release. Basically, any release you would do security updates for should 
not have assertions in it (since the assertions probably increase 
security risk and definitely have a performance impact). --enable-tests 
may even introduce security holes because it e.g. adds additional search 
paths for files.

Havoc