On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:12:46 -0500 Mike Blumenkrantz <m...@zentific.com> 
>> said:
>>> imo we should always attempt to provide backwards compatibility for as long 
>>> as
>>> possible. I recently updated the notification stuff to use the new spec 
>>> while
>>> still checking for old-style messages, and my e17 pulseaudio code supports 
>>> all
>>> versions back to 0.9.16 (I think, maybe even older).
>>
>> agreed. in fact the situation is much worse. the e connman api and abi have
>> been quite badly broken. see my email about it.
>
> there is no way.
>
> And IMO we should make it clear src/lib/dbus is 1.x, everything else
> depends on the service API.
>
> I talked to raster at IRC, I'll rename econnman stuff:
>
> libeconnman0_7x.so
> econnman0.7x.pc
> econnman0.7x/E_Connman.h
>
> making it even more clear. Particularly to 0.x services, but for
> instance BlueZ is breaking their API for upcoming 5.x release.
>
> the problem to provide backwards compatibility is when the service is
> huge and the features actually went away or changed in a dramatic way.
> If it was just a wording problem, then fine, but logic and all
> changed.
>
> Ideally we'd have e_dbus-codegen that generates .c/h and you can just
> place them in your code, like people do with Qt and Glib.

BTW, due a visit from our dear Samsung people I'm unavailable until
Thursday. If someone can do this changes, please!!! (/me looks at
demarchi)

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