gEDA-dev: BSD and DBus

Dan McMahill dan at mcmahill.net
Fri Nov 3 23:08:25 EST 2006


Peter Clifton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just thought people might be interested regarding DBus and BSD. DBus
> is nearly ready to release version 1.0, and the following quote is from
> the mailing list:
> 
> """
> * There have also been a slew of fixes for *BSD variant.  Unfortunately
> because of the lack of active *BSD developers we are not blocking on
> *BSD working for 1.0.  Hopefully this release fixes the remaining issues
> and there is still a window of time to get more fixes in however, it may
> have to be pushed out to a point release.
> """
> 
> The release is at: 
> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-0.95.tar.gz
> 
> We don't need to depend on such a new version for the Linux arch, and
> since the API hasn't changed much in a while (paraphrasing from the list
> - I've not been developing with DBus long enough to know it first hand),
> we ought not to have a problem with distros which ship with older
> versions.
> 
> Will this solve the porability issues?

Any solaris or Mac OS/X reports?

-Dan





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