Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] removal of bonobo is premature

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin wh9 net>]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:09:31PM +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:11:37AM -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote:
> > With the removal of bonobo from CVS, this means that rhythmbox will no
> > longer compile on Fedora Core 4 because FC-4 only ships with dbus
> > 0.33.
> 
> I'm working on minimal support for dbus 0.31 < x < 0.35, and should be
> done reasonably soon.  Until then, you should be able to just comment
> out the line in configure.ac that makes it fail if it doesn't find a new
> enough dbus (AC_MSG_ERROR somewhere around line 600).  All dbus code is
> still inside #ifdef WITH_DBUS (and we'll probably keep it that way), so
> everything else should be fine as is.

Well, that wasn't exactly true.

Anyway, I've just committed old-dbus support to CVS.  Hopefully the
out-of-process metadata reader code will also work with older dbus
versions, so users of older distributions might get something out of
this change besides a slightly smaller rhythmbox binary.