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Subject: Re: D-Bus 1.3.x / 1.4.0
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel () holtmann ! org>
Date: 2009-07-22 9:27:28
Message-ID: 1248254848.28545.122.camel () violet
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Hi Thiago,
> I have just changed the version number in configure.in to indicate 1.3.0, with
> library revision 8:0:5 (libtool stuff).
>
> This branch will contain as new features (according to a simple commit log
> check):
> - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
> - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
> - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
> (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
> - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
> and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
> - feature negotiation in the bus daemon
>
> Thanks to Lennart for the 4 main features above.
thanks for making 1.3 happening.
> Missing features that can still make it into 1.4:
> - support for single-precision floating point types
> - bus auto-starting on Mac OS X systems
> - Windows native support
> - anonymous connections (no authentication)
>
> Apart from the last item, the features above have not been submitted for
> inclusion as patches to D-Bus yet. If the maintainers of such features want
> them in D-Bus 1.4.0, please speak up soon with a timeline on which your
> feature should be stable.
>
> As for the anonymous connections, can someone take the patch from Bugzilla and
> clear the dust?
>
> Finally, we need to agree on the timeline for the release. But until the
> maintainers of features speak up, we can't know how much time we should
> allocate for the 1.3.x series.
We have almost one week gone by now and the only feature where something
happened is the Mac OS X auto-starting stuff.
If we wanna expose D-Bus 1.4 to bigger testing we should ensure it makes
it into the next round of community distros. So I would propose that if
we have no response by next week we close the features down and target
for a release within the end of next month. Everything else would be
then for 1.5 or later. The earlier we release the better.
Regards
Marcel
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