Re: [RFC] Reorganizing the BlueZ source tree

Bastien Nocera
2012-06-08T11:59:08Z

On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 20:46 +0900, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> > > >> and I still have all the rights to do so.
> > > >>
> > > >> As long as we are still based on GLib, this will stay as it is. I am
> > > >> not
> > > >> jumping through any hoops, because David wouldn't respect prior art.
> > > >
> > > > How exactly would would have called a D-Bus implementation in GLib?
> > >
> > > Well you could have called godbus as that is more a gobject binding
> > > than a pure glib/GMainLoop one.
> >
> > GLib lives in a single tarball. It's only Marcel's hate for GObject and
> > the apparent need to be able to replace glib that spawned this thin
> > wrapper on top of libdbus you're using now.
>
> plain fact is that our gdbus code was there first.

Nice comeback.

> If you wanna turn this into a GObject discussion now,

I don't. I'm merely pointing out that a file layout change might be a
good time to fix potential symbol clashes.

> then please find a
> mailing list that cares. It is clearly not this one.

I think you've made this abundantly clear. I don't think this attitude
is helping BlueZ thrive, when it's far less friction to fix problems
higher up in the stack.