Development of the ModemManager 0.6 API

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

Hi everyone,

I just pushed a new '06-api' [1] development branch in the upstream
ModemManager git repo. This branch will hold the port of ModemManager to
the new 0.6 API, using GDBus and also targeting the new multi-mode LTE
devices. At some point it will also include the new libmm-glib [2] and
the mmcli [3], as well as new probing changes discussed not long ago in
the mailing list.

Currently the branch contains:
 * Port of the DBus introspection XMLs to the format required by
gdbus-codegen. Not using the ObjectManager interface yet, still need to
do that.
 * Generation of the API documentation with gtk-doc (see generated HTML
at [4]), and removal of the previous documentation generation.
 * New static include/ModemManager-enums.h, with enumerations and types
required both in the DBus API and in the core daemon.
 * New auto-generated include/ModemManager-names.h, with the DBus
method, property and signal names taken from the introspection XMLs. We
can keep this header around, even if libmm-glib is ready, for
applications wanting an easy port to the new API.
 * New include/ModemManager1.h which includes the previous both headers;
temporary name while the include/ModemManager.h from the previous API is
still around.
 * Setup of gdbus-codegen and glib-mkenums to generate sources which are
compiled into a non-installable generated/libgenerated.la. Both daemon
and libmm-glib will end up using this.

You're advised to *not* use this branch unless you really want unstable
code. It is expected to break currently available features and plugins
while the port is ongoing. We'll probably try to merge into master some
of the new development from time to time, if we see it doesn't break
anything (or not much). I will also (try to) avoid rebasing it, at least
until before merging to master.

Comments (and help) welcome :-),

Cheers!

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ModemManager/ModemManager/log/?h=06-api
[2] Briefly commented in
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-August/msg00086.html
[3]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-September/msg00137.html
[4] http://www.lanedo.com/~aleksander/modem-manager/api-20111020


-- 
Aleksander