Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:56 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 01:07 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > - Where do we put this ? Inside libgobject (since it is more or less
> > DBus bindings for GObject) or inside libgio (since it uses the GIO
> > async
> > pattern and some utility classes from GIO) or separate ?
> > 
> >    My proposal: Add it as a separate library, next to (or actually on
> > top of) GObject and GIO. Maybe call it GBus.
> 
> Would it be possible for the dbus GLib main loop integration and the
> GObject bridging to be separate libraries?  Having DBus integrated in
> glib-only applications would be useful, and also it lets you re-use the
> main loop binding if you don't want to use GBus.

Not sure how this is possible; the fact that EggDBus is using libdbus-1
is an implementation detail and I think we want it to stay that way.

     David