Re: [Evolution-hackers] Front-end header files for E-D-S libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Di, 2011-03-22 at 14:35 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > For 3.1, I would like to provide a top-level header file for each of the > libraries in E-D-S and deprecate including individual header files. The > benefits should be clear by now: more flexibility to change or rearrange > header files wit

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Front-end header files for E-D-S libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 13:42 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > How much of a problem is that in practice? It's getting to be a problem. Seemingly innocent changes to header files break builds in unexpected ways. Here's a common scenario: - Header file includes . - A client program includes a

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Front-end header files for E-D-S libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Mi, 2011-03-23 at 09:05 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 13:42 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > How much of a problem is that in practice? > > It's getting to be a problem. Seemingly innocent changes to header > files break builds in unexpected ways. Here's a common scenario

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Front-end header files for E-D-S libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 14:55 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > Okay, I see your point. But if the split into individual files is merely > to group code and not done to speed up compilation, wouldn't the > following also work: > 1. move current files into an internal sub-directory > 2. introduc

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Front-end header files for E-D-S libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Mi, 2011-03-23 at 10:19 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 14:55 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > Okay, I see your point. But if the split into individual files is merely > > to group code and not done to speed up compilation, wouldn't the > > following also work: > > 1. mo

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Front-end header files for E-D-S libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:52 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > I thought that this break would go into 3.0 (see my initial reply). So > if 3.1 requires changes anyway, then sure, go ahead and break it some > more ;-) Oh, I missed that in your first reply. Sorry. That was the plan originally, but keep

[Evolution-hackers] Backend requesting arbitrary user input from frontend

2011-03-23 Thread Christian Hilberg
Hi all. Part of the overall evolution-kolab project is to make it possible for Evolution (as a Kolab client) to use TPM [1] infrastructure. In short, it's all about certificate based client authentication, where clients can be forced to authenticate themselves against a server when establishing

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Backend requesting arbitrary user input from frontend

2011-03-23 Thread Christian Hilberg
Hi again, Am Mittwoch 23 März 2011, um 18:03:32 schrieb Christian Hilberg: > Hi all. > [...] > Maybe this is a more general thing than just having a backend requesting a > user PIN. I can imagine other scenarios where a backend might need to > request any user interaction, input, whatsoever, which