Re: [BlueZ-Announce] Release of bluez-libs-3.26 and bluez-utils-3.26

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 02:31 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> > > this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
> > > library and the utilities. This release is actually a cleanup release
> > > and the first step towards the BlueZ 4.0 generation.
> > > 
> > > With this release all services are switched on by default and all old
> > > school daemons are disabled. So all package maintainers, please keep
> > > this in mind and adjust your packages.
> > > 
> > > The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html
> > 
> > Which daemons do you call "old school"? Is this pand/dund?
> 
> yes. All this hidd, pand, dund etc. stuff that is more hacking around
> than actually doing something.

Right, we weren't using those by default in Fedora either.

> > Can we get rid of the tick boxes in the properties services tab now? :)
> 
> Actually we will, but not so quickly. We have to re-design parts of the
> service infrastructure for 4.0 and then we see.

OK.

> Btw. you need to update gnome-user-share since the obex-data-server-0.1
> API now uses DBUS_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH and no strings anymore.

I didn't see anything to port at first glance, but you're right. Fixed
in SVN trunk.

> And I am thinking about simply adding the support for FTP to bluez-gnome
> since the dependencies of gnome-user-share are a little bit too much.

The same as bluez-gnome plus httpd and avahi. Could you add a way to
disable the bluez-gnome code? I'm thinking of adding obexpush support in
gnome-user-share as well, as it's the better place to have it, thinking
desktop-wide.


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