Re: [SyncEvolution] Request: Install D-Bus interface XML files

On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:15 +0100, Sascha Peilicke wrote: > On Friday 04 June 2010 16:06:53 Sascha Peilicke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it would be great of the D-Bus interface XML files would be installed > > into /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces (or to whatever directory that is > > configured). The KDE frontend is using them to generate Qt classes > > directly from the interface definition rather than by tinkering with > > the glib-centric syncevo- dbus-* headers. That's indeed the approach that I would suggest. > > Currently we simply copy those XML files from the > > Git source. > > Preferably in that form: > > /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.syncevolution.Server.xml > /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.syncevolution.Session.xml > /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.syncevolution.Connection.xml That belongs into a development package, right? I don't want to disrupt the work already done on packaging 1.0, so I'll put this change into a 1.0.1 update.

As far as I know, Qt D-Bus needs annotations to define the corresponding local types. How do you intend to add them to the installed files?

FYI, I have asked whether we can get at least that part of the work which was already done for a Qt app published quickly.