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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: roadmap
From:       "smog zer" <smogzer () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-08-09 19:48:52
Message-ID: d85f03660808091248p1fb7ec28x10c619136d8ed51 () mail ! gmail ! com
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>> Feature negotiation has to be end-to-end, over the bus daemon. That's a
>> huge problem because you would have to negotiate with all your peers.
>>
>
> I hadn't even thought of that... does seem like a mess.
>
> There's a simple workaround in the case of DBUS_TYPE_FLOAT - either
> send it as a double or send it as a byte array. If you're doing 3D
> vertices over dbus that probably is not outrageously more low-level
> than your app already is.
>
> Havoc

Why care with negotiations, just add it now while the "iron is still
hot" and dbus does not have that many wire protocol implementations,
and then notify the current wire protocol library maintainers.
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