Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug

[Christian Kellermann]

* John J Foerch <address@hidden> [110316 17:59]:
> Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> writes:
> > Hi John!
> >
> >> This is misleading.  It should say "send a signal" instead of "message".
> >> The second clause is also misleading, because there is simply no
> >> response to wait for.
> >> 
> >> Then the examples just need to be fixed up to use dbus:call instead of
> >> dbus:send.  The second example uses dbus:send-and-await-reply, which
> >> isn't even part of the api.  It seems to have a different call form from
> >> dbus:call, so we would have to examine that more closely and figure out
> >> what the intent was.
> >
> > First of all, thanks for your detailed report!  As you are the first
> > user of this egg after a long time I would suspect some bitrot.
> > Please feel free to change the wiki page as you see fit and maybe
> > send patches for the egg to the author, maybe cc'ed to this list.
> > I hope you are not put off by all the dust that has set on this
> > extension. Let's make it better!
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Christian
> 
> 
> Okay, great.  For some reason I hadn't noticed that I could edit that
> page.  I thought the egg pages were auto-generated from inline comments
> in the eggs themselves (or something).  So I will work on cleaning that
> up and contact the author about the couple of bugs I've found in the
> code itself.

Cool! You are not the first user not noticing that he could edit
the page. What can we do to improve the situation there?

I am asking because stuff like this gets forgotten quickly by
newcomers and then it is all obvious...until the next new person
shows up...

Kind regards,

Christian