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

[Stephen Eilert]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:55:54 -0400 John J Foerch <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> 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!
>>
>> 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.
>
> Excellent.
>
> Documentation for eggs is usually manually written.  As far as I know,
> nobody uses automatic extraction of comments from code.

And that's a shame.


--Stephen

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