On 05/28/2012 02:21 PM, Radu Moisan wrote:
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> On 05/28/2012 01:55 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> First, sorry for the thread breaking, I've just joined this list and I
>> didn't get this mail.
>>
>> Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>   dbus: Update to version 1.5.12
>>> First: how was this tested?
> the only testing I've done so far is to ensure it build and then check 
> the version with dbus-daemon --version

Dbus comes with a test suite. Running those should be a must.
>>> Second: From the dbus website:
>>>
>>>         The current stable branch is D-Bus 1.4.x. This is the recommended
>>> version for most purposes.
>>>         The current development branch is D-Bus 1.5.x, which will lead to a
>>> 1.6.x stable branch in future.
>>>
>>> Why are you deleting the stable branch based recipe and add one from
>>> the development branch?
>> The definition of stable and unstable in DBus isn't as hard and fast
>> as you'd really like -- the 1.5.x cycle is very slow and mostly stable
>> from a crashy point of view.
>>
>> I'd say there is a good rationale for having both 1.4.x (.20, so that
>> also needs an upgrade) and 1.5.x in oe-core.  The default should be
>> 1.4 for obvious reasons (it's the stable release), and 1.5 should be
>> there for people who need the improvements.  In particular there has
>> been a lot of work on performance, so anyone heavily using dbus (i.e.
>> anything using Telepathy, which is where the improvements came from)
>> should look at 1.5 because it will give a noticeable improvement on
>> slower hardware.
>>
>> Ross
> I suppose, then, I should add another recipe and support both. 
> However, can someone point out how can I make one of them default.

DEFAULT_PREFERENCE

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