Good evening, On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 01:44:32PM -0700, James Powell wrote: > So exactly what do we use in place of D-Bus as a replacement Userspace IPC > handler and protocol that is Generic to POSIX systems and UNIX? > > If we rip out D-Bus what do we use in it's place that is drop in compatible? > You're talking about tearing apart a LOT of packages just to satisfy a > grievance.
nanomsg, sunrpc, a common specification to use pipes where needed and msgpacks in socket where needed, ya name it. But... > This is outside the scope and mission statement of Devuan, and I'm sorry if > you dislike D-Bus so much, but it is accepted and POSIX compliant software. > It's not perfect, but are any protocols that allow interapplication and > interprocess communication across a system and network going to be not be > complex to work? ... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and is documented on a random basis, when you compare it to the rest of GNU/Fedora it's... like GTK: it sucks, there are alternatives but it's a PITA to port away 'cause a lot of big codebases uses them as foundation. > Again, a witch hunt on software is not necessary, needed, or appropriate for > Devuan. And this is not the workplace of the guy who carves in stone *all* the pinpoints, bikesheds and milestones for Devuan. Just *some*. Most of what you read is forum talk, tbh. -- Teodoro Santoni Something is wrong. I don't wanna compile 20 KB of Go code to list files. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
