Re: External dependency for 2.22: managed D-Bus

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

+1 for this request

the API is stable and very intuitive. This would help solve the problem
of having managed-dbus bundled for some distros and not for some others,
hence reducing the package sizes.

regards

Stephane
F-Spot co-maintainer

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 07:42 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007 4:37 AM, Alp Toker <alp atoker com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I noticed we missed managed D-Bus[0] in the list of external
> > dependencies for 2.21. It's used pretty extensively by Tomboy which is
> > in the core desktop module, as well as a handful of other applications
> > like F-Spot, last-exit and Banshee.
> >
> > Module           Version#  Download
> > ------           --------  --------
> > ndesk-dbus       0.6.0     http://www.ndesk.org/archive/ndesk-dbus
> > ndesk-dbus-glib  0.4.1     http://www.ndesk.org/archive/ndesk-dbus
> >
> > Both libraries have strict ABI stability guarantees, and have not broken
> > compatibility since the first release.
> >
> > There are also a bunch of copies of these modules scattered throughout
> > GNOME SVN, which is no good for security-critical IPC code. Getting them
> > on the list of blessed external dependencies will encourage developers
> > to stop bundling.
> >
> >    [0] http://www.ndesk.org/DBus
> 
> I'd like to second this.  Managed DBus has been a real pleasure to
> use, especially with Alp as such a helpful and responsible maintainer.
>  It is a bit of a pain having to bundle a copy of it in the Tomboy
> tarball.  Nowadays stable ndesk-dbus* packages exist for the recent
> versions of the major distros.
> 
> Managed DBus is the natural way to use DBus in Mono languages, so as
> long as Mono and DBus are part of GNOME, I think it's a no-brainer to
> make Managed DBus a blessed external dependency.
> 
> Sandy
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