Re: [BlueZ-Announce] Release of bluez-libs-3.30 and bluez-utils-3.30

Johan Hedberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bluez.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apr 3, 2008, at 23:37, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> After a long discussion, the consensus was to use plugins instead of
>> separate processes for the future of BlueZ. This release marks the  
>> start
>> of this change. All existing services have been converted to plugins
>> while keeping the old D-Bus API.
>
> I am just being curious, I'd like to know why the separate processes
> approach was dropped.

It isn't of course the whole story (Marcel will probably fill up with  
more reasons), but the following is a table of the pros/cons of each  
approach that we created couple of weeks ago when planing the 4.x  
work: http://iki.fi/jhedberg/plugin-vs-process.jpg

Johan
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