On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:31:31 -0400 Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are two principle things I dislike about D-Bus. > > 1) It doesn't support live upgrading of the daemon. We discussed the > reasons behind this several weeks ago, as I recall. Transparent > session control handoff is, of course, complicated, and nobody has > seen the work as worthwhile. If your 2nd objection changes, this one will probably get looked at. > 2) It comes with (or appears to come with) a Linux-centric (sometimes > even a Linux-only) view. I love Linux, and I would love to see Linux > grow and improve. I also use (and am comfortable with) Windows and > Android (which I would consider Not Really Linux) and other > platforms*. Attitudes and actions which push Linux as the One Ring > smack of 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish'. dbus is a freedesktop project so will live or die by it's merits. Other systems may start to use it if it proves itself useful. Lucky for us, it doesn't obsolete anything else, just adds functionality to what is already there. -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
