Re: [Bluez-devel] [BlueZ-Announce] Release of bluez-libs-3.30 and bluez-utils-3.30

Re: [Bluez-devel] [BlueZ-Announce] Release of bluez-libs-3.30 and bluez-utils-3.30

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi!

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrot=
e:
>
>  After a long discussion, the consensus was to use plugins instead of
>  separate processes for the future of BlueZ. This release marks the start
>  of this change. All existing services have been converted to plugins
>  while keeping the old D-Bus API.

I am just being curious, I'd like to know why the separate processes
approach was dropped.

Thanks a lot for the good work&news!

cheers,
-- =


Marc-Andr=E9 Lureau

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Re: [Bluez-devel] [BlueZ-Announce] Release of bluez-libs-3.30 and bluez-utils-3.30

[Johan Hedberg]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 23:37, Marc-Andr=E9 Lureau wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann  =

> <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
>>
>> After a long discussion, the consensus was to use plugins instead of
>> separate processes for the future of BlueZ. This release marks the  =

>> start
>> of this change. All existing services have been converted to plugins
>> while keeping the old D-Bus API.
>
> I am just being curious, I'd like to know why the separate processes
> approach was dropped.

It isn't of course the whole story (Marcel will probably fill up with  =

more reasons), but the following is a table of the pros/cons of each  =

approach that we created couple of weeks ago when planing the 4.x  =

work: http://iki.fi/jhedberg/plugin-vs-process.jpg

Johan
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