Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2011/3/7 Matthias Clasen : > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Tristan Van Berkom > wrote: > >>  b.) It's damn easy to make GApplication at least startup >>      correctly, run the main loop and just not use any IPC, >>      it's the least I think that one can expect. > > Then lets the patch already

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: >  b.) It's damn easy to make GApplication at least startup >      correctly, run the main loop and just not use any IPC, >      it's the least I think that one can expect. Then lets the patch already, instead of needlessly prolonging thi

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 22:52 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 2011-03-07 at 18:40, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > > Will use of GtkApplication cause my app to simply fail just because > > a win32/osx implementation is missing ? or will it silently succeed ? > > there is nothing X11-specific in GAppl

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 2011-03-07 at 18:40, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Will use of GtkApplication cause my app to simply fail just because > a win32/osx implementation is missing ? or will it silently succeed ? there is nothing X11-specific in GApplication or GtkApplication. in fact, if you install D-Bus on OSX or

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 16:48 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tristan Van Berkom > wrote: > > > > > As I mentioned before, I'm not asking for an implementation on win32 > > of GtkApplication, I'm just asking for it to succeed, run a mainloop > > and "do something" as

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > a.) GtkApplication only available as GtkX11Application is acceptable, >     because people only expect it to work on x11 (the actual stubs >     should in this case only be created on x11 and the docs should >     mention that it an x11-

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > > As I mentioned before, I'm not asking for an implementation on win32 > of GtkApplication, I'm just asking for it to succeed, run a mainloop > and "do something" as a fallback for a missing implementation. So, you are not asking for an

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 16:08 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Tristan Van Berkom > wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 10:37 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > > ... do I have to pull out that change while > > GApplication is still unstable ? > > GApplication is not un

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 10:37 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > ... do I have to pull out that change while > GApplication is still unstable ? GApplication is not unstable. It is true that after all the back-and-forth, nobody has gotten aro

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-03-07 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 10:37 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > Hey, > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Paul Davis > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM, David Zeuthen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Just for the record, there's no reason that GDBus cannot be made to > >> work very nicely on Win

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-02-26 Thread David Zeuthen
Hey, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM, David Zeuthen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just for the record, there's no reason that GDBus cannot be made to >> work very nicely on Win32 or any other platform we care about. GDBus >> (and D-Bus itself) was des

Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-02-26 Thread Paul Davis
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM, David Zeuthen wrote: > Hi, > > Just for the record, there's no reason that GDBus cannot be made to > work very nicely on Win32 or any other platform we care about. GDBus > (and D-Bus itself) was designed with this goal in mind. what functionality is (G)D-Bus supp

GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

2011-02-26 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, Just for the record, there's no reason that GDBus cannot be made to work very nicely on Win32 or any other platform we care about. GDBus (and D-Bus itself) was designed with this goal in mind. That is to say, it is possible to make a Win32 build of GLib where GDBus works as expect in both pee