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<node name="/Channel_Future"
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xmlns:tp="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/DbusSpec#extensions-v0">
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<tp:copyright>Copyright (C) 2008 Collabora Ltd.</tp:copyright>
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<tp:copyright>Copyright (C) 2008 Nokia Corporation</tp:copyright>
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<tp:license xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<p>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
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<p>This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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Lesser General Public License for more details.</p>
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<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</p>
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<interface name="org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.FUTURE"
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tp:causes-havoc="a staging area for future Channel functionality">
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<tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<p>This interface contains functionality which we intend to incorporate
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namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy">Channel</tp:dbus-ref> interface
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in future. It should be considered to
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be conceptually part of the core Channel interface, but without
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API or ABI guarantees.</p>
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<p>If we add new functionality to the Channel interface, libraries
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that use generated code (notably telepathy-glib) will have it as
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part of their ABI forever, meaning we can't make incompatible
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changes. By using this interface as a staging area for future
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Channel functionality, we can try out new properties, signals
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and methods as application-specific extensions, then merge them
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into the core Channel interface when we have enough implementation
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experience to declare them to be stable.</p>
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<p>The name is by analogy to Python's <code>__future__</code>
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<property name="Bundle" tp:name-for-bindings="Bundle"
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type="o" access="read">
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<tp:added version="0.17.9">(in Channel.FUTURE
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pseudo-interface)</tp:added>
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<tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<tp:dbus-ref namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy">ChannelBundle</tp:dbus-ref>
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to which this channel belongs.</p>
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<p>A channel's Bundle property can never change.</p>
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<p>Older connection managers might not have this property. Clients
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(particularly the channel dispatcher) SHOULD recover by considering
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each channel to be in a bundle containing only that channel,
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distinct from all other bundles, which has no additional
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