[PATCH] tevent glib event loop glue

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Hi Ralph,

> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 07:51:54AM -0500, Simo wrote:
>> Is there any chance we can build glib support into a loadable module
>> rather than having to compile it into samba or not ?
> 
> The patchset doesn't change the current situation: since 4.3 if you
> configure with --enable-spotlight, you'll pull in glib. If you don't,
> you don't.
> 
>> I would rather not increase the dependency tree for a normal install if
>> possible ...
> 
> I have another patchset (mostly ready) that reintroduces loadable RPC
> modules (because that's where this gets actually used in the mdssvc
> RPC service aka Spotlight). But iirc metze said there wre reasons to
> remove this future in the past and this shouldn't be
> resurrected. metze?

Maintaining an API that's useful for external RPC services
needs to be future proof! I hope we'll get there with the design I proposed
a few times, see https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/DCERPC.
But the current API is just legacy, that needs to be as private as possible.

metze

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/attachments/20160216/c3c0bd41/signature.sig>