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Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug
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Mario Domenech Goulart |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:03:39 -0400 |
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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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- [Chicken-users] dbus:send bug, John J Foerch, 2011/03/15
- [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, John J Foerch, 2011/03/15
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Christian Kellermann, 2011/03/16
- [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, John J Foerch, 2011/03/16
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug,
Mario Domenech Goulart <=
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Stephen Eilert, 2011/03/16
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Peter Bex, 2011/03/16
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Stephen Eilert, 2011/03/16
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, John Cowan, 2011/03/16
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Peter Bex, 2011/03/16
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Stephen Eilert, 2011/03/16
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Peter Bex, 2011/03/16
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, John Gabriele, 2011/03/17
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Peter Bex, 2011/03/17
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: dbus:send bug, Christian Kellermann, 2011/03/16