Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mercredi 11 février 2009, à 11:31 +0000, Alberto Ruiz a écrit :
> 2009/2/11 Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>:
> > With 2.20 winding down, I think now would be a good time to talk about
> > what should happen in Glib 2.22.
> >
> > One thing that has been tossed around for a long time is that it would
> > be really good to have DBus support on the Glib level.
> 
> Would this support be optional? I'm concerned about making GLib
> dependant on a dbus development environment on Windows as DBus has no
> regular windows builds whatsoever (AFAIK).
> 
> > This would allow us to move forward with several things in GTK+ that
> > will work much better if they can use DBus:
> > - session support
> > - unique application support
> 
> Would DBus be swappable here for something else on non freedesktop
> environments? (Windows, Mac)

Just wondering if an easy way like "make this API UNIX-only" is an
option that can be considered?

In the end I don't expect the use of dbus in the rest of the glib/gtk+
stack API to be visible (but maybe I'm naive here).

Vincent

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