Re: Our D-Bus implementation

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Gary Kramlich <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Ethan Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Gary Kramlich spake unto us the following wisdom:
> >> Does anyone know if anyone or anything is using our current D-Bus
> >> exported API?  I know the API is very sub-optimal and would like to
> >> remove it until something better can be put together.  This is mainly
> >> to just clean out the closet and simplify the code.
> >
> > I think removing the D-Bus API is reasonable (unless someone screams
> > that they're actually using it, I guess, but even then it's bound to
> > change!).  I assume GObjectification will get us some sort of D-Bus
> > API for "free" right?
>

Oh please kill it. I have had that one on my TODO list for a long time but
wasn't
sure if someone actually used it.

I think that given the amount of dev power we have, it is reasonable to
remove
some non-core features to reduce code complexity and maintenance cost. At
least
until we get more developers.

Thanks Gary for raising the question.


> For free, no.  But GBus is a million times easier to use and to
> actually proxy objects onto D-Bus.
>
> > Ethan
>
> Thanks,
>
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