On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 10:43 +0800, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > Hi all, > > > I was wondering if there's any reason we typically don't install on > the system DBus XML interface files for services. On my system, I can > see a bunch of definitions in /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces, but it's > by no means a complete list of all the services in the system. > Standardizing such a practice would make it easier to write code that > uses e.g. gdbus-codegen to automatically generate code for those > interfaces; currently a lot of projects need to copy/paste the > interface definition in their source tree, which is impractical and > can lead to inconsistencies when one version of the interface is > updated (in a backwards-compatible way) but not the other side.
I can’t think of any reasons why not. Perhaps a GDBus automake snippet could be installed by GLib which: 1. Installs D-Bus XML interface files. 2. Includes rules for building documentation and C/H files from them. 3. Validates the XML interface files for well-formedness. Philip
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