Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 11:49:11AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > a major accessibility regression. I however believe corba can be used > over TCP/IP, I would be *very* surprised if that wasn't true -- CORBA was meant to be used over TCP/IP, using it to localhost or over a unix domain socket is j

Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Fri 01 Jul 2011 09:39:54 +0200, a écrit : > but if we can get rid of at-spi and > have GConf ported to D-Bus before the wheezy release, I’m not sure it’s > worth an investigation. For now, at-spi2 is very far from being as usable as at-spi, it would be a major accessibility re

Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 at 10:54:12 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > We used to have the ARM old-ABI architecture using mixed-endianness, but > we don't have this architecture anymore (replaced by armel). D-Bus interop for doubles was always broken on ARM old-ABI, then, and nobody noticed :-( The curre

Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:23:33AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 at 10:06:34 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > Even dark corner like double endianess ? > > Doubles are byteswapped in exactly the same way as int64, I hope that's > correct everywhere? (dbus/dbus-marshal-bytesw

Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 at 09:39:54 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Before we start to work on some packages, I’d like to ask if someone has >> checked whether D-Bus is multiarch-safe. Said otherwise, is it possible >> to use a D-Bus interface

Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 at 10:06:34 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Even dark corner like double endianess ? Doubles are byteswapped in exactly the same way as int64, I hope that's correct everywhere? (dbus/dbus-marshal-byteswap.c around line 73.) To be more specific: D-Bus assumes that doubles are

Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 at 09:01:04 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Foreign-endian messages are always *meant* to have worked To clarify that a bit: messages can have either endianness, but libdbus will deal with that transparently, and always give library users data in native endianness (byteswapping

Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 at 09:39:54 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Before we start to work on some packages, I’d like to ask if someone has > checked whether D-Bus is multiarch-safe. Said otherwise, is it possible > to use a D-Bus interface over another architecture? D-Bus is machine-word-size-neutr

Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 27 juin 2011 à 11:54 +0100, Steve Langasek a écrit : > It is with excitement and trepidation that I write to you today about the > status of multiarch support in Debian. A big thank you to all of those who finally made this possible. Before we start to work on some packages, I’d like to