Shawn Betts <sabe...@gmail.com> writes: > However, clearly, cl-dbus or another lisp dbus > implementation is the long term solution :). How hard can hacking dbus > possibly be?
The potential uses of a Common Lisp DBUS binding are numerous. When I started cl-dbus, I looked at the code for the C dbus library. I quickly decided that reimplementation is the way to go. ;) The low-level communication setup and authentication are done. There is a prototype of the low-level marshalling code. The rest is mostly macrology. Basically, there could be two interfaces: 1. A def-dbus-method macro that takes the name of the method and the argument types and generates optimized stub code.[1] 2. Something like call-dbus-method, which does all the marshalling ad hoc. For speed you could wrap that up with a compiler macro. These only need to be written. ;) There are some parts of the DBUS spec that really suck and make writing cl-dbus highly annoying, though... For anyone that would like to help, the code is at http://github.com/blitz/cl-dbus and you can best reach me via Jabber/XMPP at bl...@spaceboyz.net. Footnotes: [1] C/C++ people are always amazed when you do this kind in a macro that is half a page long. I would rather pluck my eyes out than hack on http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/dice/ ... -- Julian Stecklina The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge
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