ANN: gsm0710muxd 0.9.1 released

pHilipp Zabel philipp.zabel at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 14:02:41 CEST 2008


On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
<mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  > but you can simply include all *.vala and *.marshal files in the tarball
>  > to have them at least for reference.
>
>  Agreed.
>
>  > On the other hand, the usage of Vala and D-Bus GLib bindings is total
>  > overhead for this one. You might wanna have a look into libgdbus which
>  > gives you D-Bus wit GLib mainloop integration without the hassle of
>  > having an object oriented system. And in this case you only do GObject
>  > to get D-Bus support. That introduces a dependency chain that is not
>  > justifiable for a system daemon.
>
> >
>  > > > A simple compile test gives me 159 lines of warnings. These should be
>  > > > fixed first since otherwise you start overlooking real bugs where the
>  > > > compiler would have warned you.
>  > >
>  > > Well, I should probably remove -pedantic -- without it's down to 6.
>  >
>  > Still warnings :)
>
>  Righto, need to fix that.
>
>
>  > > > Also never (I mean never) include C files from another C file. If you
>  > > > have no idea on how to use autoconf/automake correctly, then ask
>  > > > someone.
>  > >
>  > > Hehe, thanks for this "friendly" advice. Actually I do have a clue about
>  > > autotools and this part of the MUXer is not my baby, but yes, we'll fix
>  > > that later.
>  >
>  > If you really think that having the GSM 07.10 in userspace is better
>  > than the kernel solution,
>
>  It took quite some time for me to make up my mind about that and by now I
>  indeed think userland is a good place for that piece of code. Eventually, we
>  will might see a kernel MUXer or not, then we can reconsider. But until then
>  I want something that gets the job done and gsm0710muxd does it.
>
>  > this code needs massive cleanup.  It is almost impossible to review this
>  code.
>
>  Agreed. The code layout is a bit on the ugly side. Patches very welcome.
>
>  > Can you setup a git repository somewhere. Doing tarball only releases is
>  > not really helpful.
>
>  Hmm, tarball-only? Try
>
>  svn checkout svn://projects.linuxtogo.org/svn/smartphones/trunk smartphones
>
>  and check for software/gsm0710muxd.
>
>  Sorry, no git at linuxtogo.

There is: http://www.linuxtogo.org/git-repositories. Though not
integrated into GForge (yet?).

regards
Philipp



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