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Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy
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Jan Moringen |
Subject: |
Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:24:17 +0200 |
Hi Michael.
> >> That's more or less how I did understand it. What I recommend is a
> >> description for the user, which does not use eieio terminology. It could
> >> be a barrier for people not familiar with eieio.
> >
> > I committed the following updated explanation which makes fewer
> > references to EIEIO:
> >
> > ;; When called for the first time on a particular D-Bus object,
> > ;; `dbus-proxy-make-remote-proxy' looks up the set of interfaces
> > ;; implemented by the object and dynamically creates Emacs Lisp code
> > ;; that mimics the D-Bus interfaces. This code mainly consists of
> > ;; functions which correspond to the D-Bus interface methods, but
> > ;; information about D-Bus properties and signals is also stored.
> > ;; When called, the generated functions augment their arguments with
> > ;; D-Bus type information and call their corresponding D-Bus methods.
> > ;; When these proxy components are created, names are transformed from
> > ;; D-Bus-typical CamelCamel to something-more-lispy. The generated
> > ;; functions and object slots can be used like ordinary Emacs Lisp
> > ;; functions and object slots.
>
> Sounds OK to me. Together with an instructive example (showing
> introspection data and derived Lisp functions), it shall be sufficient.
I expanded the commentary section to that extent.
> > I think, I addressed all suggestions which do not depend on changes in
> > Emacs itself. The code is available at
> > https://code.launchpad.net/~scymtym/+junk/dbus-proxy
>
> I try to play with this next days. Unfortunately, I'm short in time (as
> usual), and I'm on the road next week.
Thanks.
Jan
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, (continued)
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, joakim, 2010/08/22
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Michael Albinus, 2010/08/22
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Jan Moringen, 2010/08/22
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Kevin Rodgers, 2010/08/23
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Michael Albinus, 2010/08/23
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Jan Moringen, 2010/08/23
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Michael Albinus, 2010/08/24
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Chong Yidong, 2010/08/24
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Tom Tromey, 2010/08/24
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy, Michael Albinus, 2010/08/26
- Re: Inclusion of dbus-proxy,
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