Re: Dbus bindings: dbus-cxx or dbus-c++?

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

El Sep 2, 2010, a las 3:48 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> escribió:

> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 21:05 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 18:44 +0100, Chris Vine wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:19:49 +0200
>>> Germán Diago <germandiago gmail com> wrote:
>>>> Hello. I'm looking for c++ bindings for dbus in gnome. I would like
>>>> to know which
>>>> of these bindings I should use.
>>>> For what I saw it looks like dbus-cxx is better mantained. Is
>>>> dbus-c++ still actively mantained? Are they usable for real projects?
>>>> Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________
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>>> 
>>> Finger trouble.  What I meant to say was:
>>> 
>>> Presumably the next glibmm release will wrap GDBus, which seems the
>>> best target to aim for if you can wait for it.
>> 
>> Actually, it would be great if someone could look at that. Thanks to
>> Jose, we now have Glib::Variant, wrapping GVariant, which it uses.
>> 
>> These links seems to be relevant:
>> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/gdbus-lowlevel.html
>> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/gdbus-convenience.html
>> 
>> Maybe we should start by wrapping this:
>> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/GDBusConnection.html
>> and this:
>> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/GDBusMessage.html
> 
> We have now wrapped much of the new glib DBus API in glibmm, though
> there's probably still lots to do. It would be great it someone played
> with it a bit, or even tried to write some example code. Otherwise, I
> fear that it might not be ready in time for the stable release. 
> 

While others test what's already there, I'd happily add more of what's missing if that's okay.

--José
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