[Development] Moving dbus tools to qtbase.git

[Stephen Kelly]

On Thursday, March 08, 2012 16:41:09 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 22:01:48 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I started looking into moving the dbus tools to qtbase.git.
> > 
> > This came up before and the conclusion was to move the dbus tools to
> > where dbus is:
> > 
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/764/focus=80
> > 
> > I tried to bootstrap the dbus tools, but that does not seem to be
> > possible (or maybe just very impractical) because they use QObject,
> > QMetaObject and one of them uses the QDBus module itself.
> > 
> > I would still like to move them to qtbase.git, but I think bootstrapping
> > them isn't possible. Can I move them somewhere else? src/dbus/tools
> > maybe?
> I chatted with Lars about this.
> 
> The two options are:
> 
> 1) A new repo, qdbustools, to hold the tools.
> 2) Bootstrap the tools.
> 
> Bootstrapping qdbuscpp2xml involves porting it away from calling moc via
> QProcess and parsing the output, as it currently does, to directly using the
> Moc class and using QClassDef etc instead of QMetaObject. It doesn't seem
> to be too hard. It would also be necessary to refactor dbus headers a bit
> to have access to defines such as
> 
> #define QCLASSINFO_DBUS_INTERFACE       "D-Bus Interface"
> 
> without Q_OBJECT getting in the way etc.
> 
> This also doesn't seem to be too hard.
> 

Bootstrapping qdbusxml2cpp might also not be too hard, but would need to pull 
in a few files from src/dbus too.

> Waiting on Thiagos input for which to proceed with.
> 
> Thanks,
-- 
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