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- Net::DBus
- =========
-
- Net::DBus provides a Perl XS API to the dbus inter-application
- messaging system. The Perl API covers the core base level
- of the dbus APIs, not concerning itself yet with the GLib
- or QT wrappers. For more information on dbus visit the
- project website at:
-
- http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/
-
- This version operates against DBus 0.33, through 0.60, and
- possibly later versions, if there have been no serious API
- changes.
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
-
- To install this module type the following:
-
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make test
- sudo make install
-
- The makefile calls the C<pkg-config> script to determine the
- correct flags to pass to the compiler & linkers when building
- the XS part of the module. Thus, ensure pkg-config is in
- a directory listed by the $PATH environment.
-
- The pkg-config program will likely find the DBus install in /usr
- provided by the base OS distribution, so if testing against an
- alternate install of DBus, set the C$PKG_CONFIG_PATH env
- variable before generating the Makefile. For example, if your
- dbus installation is in C<$HOME/usr/dbus-cvs-tip> , then to build
- and install against this version of DBus do
-
- export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/usr/dbus-cvs-tip/lib/pkg-config
- perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/usr/dbus-cvs-tip
- make
- make test
- make install
-
-
- DEPENDENCIES
- ------------
-
- In keeping with the C API, the Perl DBus implementation
- has minimal external dependancies:
-
- Time::HiRes
- XML::Twig
- XML::Parser
-
- And to run the test suite:
-
- Test::More
- Test::Pod (optional, but recommended)
- Test::Pod::Coverage (optional, but recommended)
-
- Although they are not part of the base Perl distribution, most
- OS distributor will already provide addon packages containing
- these modules. Failing this, they are all available from CPAN
- http://search.cpan.org/
-
- EXAMPLES
- --------
-
- There are a number of example programs in the examples/
- subdirectory demonstrating use of the high level application
- developer APIs.
-
- example-service.pl - Providing a simple service
- example-client.pl - Talking to a remote service
- example-signal-emitter.pl - How to broadcast signals
- example-signal-receiver.pl - How to receive signals
- dump-object.pl - Dump info about dbus objects
- lshal.pl - Dump names of all HAL devices
-
- CONTRIBUTIONS
- -------------
-
- Contributions both simple bug fixes & new features are
- always welcome. Please supply patches in context, or
- unified diff format. A simple method to generate such a
- patch is as follows:
-
- * Clean out generated files from your working
- directory:
-
- make distclean
-
- * Rename your working directory to have '-new'
- extension:
-
- mv DBus-0.33.3 DBus-0.33.3-new
-
- * Extract a pristine copy of the source:
-
- gunzip -c DBus-0.33.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
- mv DBus-0.33.3 DBus-0.33.3-orig
-
- * Generate the patch:
-
- diff -ruN DBus-0.33.3-orig DBus-0.33.3-new \
- > DBus-0.33.3-[something].patch
- gzip DBus-0.33.3-[something].patch
-
-
- Send the resulting to .patch.gz file directly to
- Daniel Berrange <dan at berrange dot com>
-
- COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
- ---------------------
-
- Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Daniel Berrange
-
- Net-DBus may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of Perl itself.
- Either:
-
- a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
- Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
- later version
-
- or
-
- b) the "Artistic License"
-
-
- See the file "COPYING" for the full text of each license
-
- -- End
-
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