Hello dconf is a very conceptually simple key/value storage system with an implementation that makes it extremely efficient. There have been 3 tarball releases so far: 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.2. More will be following in the coming weeks and months.
I'd like to propose the inclusion of dconf for GNOME 2.30 in the desktop release set. dconf brings in no new external dependencies [except, see below about glib]. There is also a separate module, 'dconf-editor', however, that uses Vala. I have already proposed Vala as an external dependency for 2.30 in a separate mail -- I think the recent advances in the stability of that project make this an extremely reasonable thing to do (even regardless of dconf). dconf is available for download from download.gnome.org, has its main webpage on live.gnome.org, is under version control in git.gnome.org, uses bugzilla.gnome.org for bug tracking and will soon have its gtk-doc published at library.gnome.org. This email is inspired by vu...@gnome.org. Adoption is not wide among GNOME projects at this point, but hopefully that changes soon. There is also not very much community involvement at this point aside from a somewhat successful Summer of Code project. All development, however, has been openly discussed and done entirely in the open from the beginning. dconf is very "GNOME 3.0 ready". Not only does it avoid the use of deprecated libraries -- it removes a big one; gconf using ORBit. The license is LGPL 2.1 "or later" for libraries and binaries (since you never know when code from a binary will want to make its way into a library). The main technical blocker on the inclusion of dconf is that it relies on a branch of glib that has not yet been merged to master. We have had a discussion at Boston Summit two days ago between myself, Matthias Clasen and David Zeuthen and we have agreed on the "way forward" for dealing with all of the GVariant/DBus related issues in GLib that involves the merging of the required patches to glib. Hopefully this happens in the coming weeks. Thanks for the consideration Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
