[fprint] Question regarding fp_print_data_get_data()

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:41 +0300, Artem Egorkine wrote:
> > Aren't Python bindings moot when we want to promote the use of the D-Bus
> > daemon (and thus free Python bindings through D-Bus introspection)?
> 
> Yes and no. It is true that you get free python bindings with D-Bus.
> Personally, that was my first thought when I realized that there were
> no python bindings in the first place. On the other hand, fprintd
> still does not provide the functionality of loading arbitrary
> fingerprint data from binary blobs and identifying a fingerprint from
> a gallery of prints. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It will as soon as I receive hardware that supports it. I don't see how
much harder it would be than writing Python bindings.

> Finally, for a small project that exclusively uses a fingerprint
> reader, I frankly see no point to involve D-Bus when you can talk to
> libfprint directly.

Which "small project" did you have in mind?

Given that the daemon takes care of data storage, and device access
permissions, there's a little more to it than using the bare-bones
libfprint API.