2005-01-18 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>

[platform/upstream/dbus.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 1b543bc..a26dbb2 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ See also the file HACKING for notes of interest to developers working on D-BUS.
 See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for lots of documentation, 
 mailing lists, etc.
 
+Note
+===
+
+A core concept of the D-BUS implementation is that "libdbus" is
+intended to be a low-level API, similar to Xlib. Most programmers are
+intended to use the bindings to GLib, Qt, Python, Mono, Java, or
+whatever. These bindings have varying levels of completeness.
+
 Configuration flags
 ===
 
@@ -22,6 +30,7 @@ the ./configure program.
   --enable-checks  include sanity checks on public API
   --enable-docs    build documentation (requires Doxygen and jade)
   --enable-gcov    compile with coverage profiling instrumentation (gcc only)
+  --enable-python  build python bindings (reqires Pyrex >= 0.9)
 
   --with-xml=libxml/expat           XML library to use
   --with-init-scripts=redhat        Style of init scripts to install