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On Monday 29 August 2005 10:12, you wrote:


Well, that would suck if there had been scripts yet -- but the reason there=
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aren't any yet is that I've been afraid of just this happening. So, yes,=20
d-bus has already had a detrimental effect.

> Your users will have to do some search and replace (I have no idea yet
> about the details, but it should be in the line of 'dcop krita' -> 'dbus
> org.kde.krita') - that's the kind of migration work we expect here from
> our users going from KDE3 to KDE4.

So, how about dcopref and things like that? And I guess I will have to redo=
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the interface stubs, right?

To me that means that I should stop working on dcop interfaces for Krita ri=
ght=20
now because the work will be wasted -- and the work I would have to do to=20
port Krita to dbus is essentially churn because it will offer neither me, a=
s=20
application maintainer, nor the users -- the script writers -- any=20
appreciable benefits.

> And the main question is not if we should have scripting or no scripting,

Of course not. Especially since we already have it.

> but if we can put that work on our users/3rd party app developers or if
> we should make sure 'dcop krita' will work in the future.

I'm not knowledgeable like Maksim, so I'm not really entitled to an opinion=
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but if we were to break stuff, it would be good to have something that made=
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writing scripts using rpc really easy. Like making the interface of the=20
exposed classes completely discoverable in a way that allow authors of rpc=
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client language blndings to recreate the original interface essentially on=
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the fly.=20

It's not that I'm all that happy with dcop -- especially dcop ref as a=20
generic, opaque reference stub that doesn't expose the interface of the=20
object it refs for is unpleasant. But I don't know whether dbus actually is=
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better in that area.

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Boudewijn Rempt=20
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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