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


From: Mario Domenech Goulart
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:03:39 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux)

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.

Best wishes.
Mario
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