From: Marc Mutz <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [announce] dbus4win Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:04:10 +0200
Hi, I'd like to announce that we at KDAB are working on 'dbus4win', which we li= ke=20 to think of as a re-unification of the freedesktop.org GIT tree and the=20 windbus.sf.net SVN tree. To this end, we already spent some time to graft t= he=20 SVN tree onto the git tree (windbus-svn branch). There are three areas we are currently focusing on: 1. cleaning up the SVN history (dbus4win branch) This is an attempt to rebase the remaining diff between the SVN tree and dbus-1.2 onto dbus-1.2, preserving the windbus history where possible. 2. Make dbus cross-compile with mingw (xcompile branch) This is needed for the gpg4win (www.gpg4win.org), and Kontact-on-Windows projects, as well as for all the reasons mentioned in http://lwn.net/Articles/307732/ 3. Implement the unix transport for Windows using the design already chosen for libassuan. This consists of writing plain text files with a nonce and the tcp port number of the server into the filesystem location where on Unix the Unix Domain Socket special file would go. Current windbus is not really usable for multiuser systems, though there was a patch recently trying to address that, but falling short of the full solution. There are certainly other ways to implement a per-user transport on Windows, but t= his design has proven itself in libassuan, an extremely security-conscious library (IPC lib for gnupg components). Please note that all this is still work in progress. None of the three focu= s=20 points are completed yet. In particular, the branches in the above reposito= ry=20 are subject to regular rebasing (exceptions: dbus-1.2 and master, which tra= ck=20 =46D.org git), so don't git-pull, but git-fetch/git-rebase instead. Nonethe= less=20 we invite interested parties to review the patches, and FD.org dbus=20 maintainers to pull from our for_upstream branch. =46ind the tree at http://repo.or.cz/w/dbus4win.git Drop me a note if you'd like push access. You need a repo.or.cz account for= =20 that, though you can use the open mob account (http://repo.or.cz/mob) for=20 fire-and-forget commits. Our hope is that =2D windbus developers consider using GIT from now on for easier patch migr= ation and merging. =2D freedesktop.org maintainers will consider Windows a first-class citizen= once crosscompilation works =2D world peace To this end, KDAB is committed to doing its share in continually maintainin= g=20 dbus on the Windows platform. Signed-off-by: Till Adam <[email protected]> :) Thanks, Marc =2D-=20 Marc Mutz <[email protected]> | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company www.kdab.com || Germany +49-30-521325470 || Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-Independent Software Solutions ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
