On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:01:40 -0200 Lucas De Marchi
<lucas.demar...@profusion.mobi> said:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Enlightenment SVN
> > <no-re...@enlightenment.org> wrote:
> >> Log:
> >> why is there a requires for the econnman.pc of connman >= 0.75 ? i
> >>  don't even see a connman.pc around - be that as it may, this is a dbus
> >>  protocol api lib and so it doesnt have a hard requirement for connman
> >>  to be installed - it's a soft requirement since its protocol.
> >
> > Blame demarchi and holtmann as they say checking during compile
> > time is the way to go. Actually this is a way to force packagers to write
> > it properly.
> 
> This is a way to warn people at compile time that their version is too
> old, instead of silently failing when methods are called.

unfortunately they can install the wrong version at runtime or not have it
installed at all and it silently fails too. :) if you really want a version
check.. you should put it in the dbus protocol to get the connman api
version :) i'd also say this is a packagers issue really :)

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