Hi, For the record, except for GApplication, nothing cross-platoform in GLib/GTK+ is using the GIO D-Bus routines (except for the GIO D-Bus routines themselves). I do agree that we should try avoiding using D-Bus except for Linux/Unix backends in the GLib/GTK+ stack itself.
Btw, I wrote about GDBus and Win32 a couple of months back, see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2011-February/msg00123.html The take-away here is that D-Bus on Win32 can be made to work just fine. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Kean Johnston <kean.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > One last thing, since it has proven to be a source of considerable > incompatibility, and that's the reliance on D-Bus. I think it should remain > possible to use dbus if you want it, if your application really needs it, > but to have relatively (from my position of ignorance) unrelated things like > gapplication absolutely rely on it is a mistake, as far as I can see. dbus > is really not appropriate for, or required for, many applications that would > otherwise want to use Glib/Gtk. Should my Windows MP3 editor really need > dbus daemons running just because it uses GtkApplication (which in turn uses > gio/glib and thus the dbus coupling)? First of all, should your MP3 editor spawn dbus-daemon.exe _just_ because it is using GtkAppication? Absolutely not. But if your MP3 editor wants to provide an easy to use interface for automation, remote control or whatever... then, yes, D-Bus is an excellent choice. Even on Win32. So is COM, CORBA, Java Remoting etc. or any other technology but these are not really as cross-platform as D-Bus is (or can be).... (Besides, dbus-daemon.exe is just one extra process which should be nowhere as big as your gtk+-using application. Neither in file size or memory/resource usage.) > Seems like a good bit of gio could use > some re-thinking and this again is maybe more appropriate for a 3.0 release > where we may be able to get away with slightly more disruptive changes. Well, GApplication should grow a Win32 backend. I don't quite think that's "rethinking" or "a good bit" .. it's just filling in the missing bits... David _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
