Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-15 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 12.12.2014 14:54, Richard Owlett a écrit : I.E. "Who is responsible for the integrity of *MY* system?" The correct answer is the proverbial "Me, Myself, and I." It is most definitely not an individual nor group whom I've never met. There is most definite

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-14 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/15 0:28 : > > > > Le 13.12.2014 05:10, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> 2014/12/13 1:29 : >> >> > >> > Le 12.12.2014 16:46, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> >> >> I did say it was not the dbus you download from freedesktop.org >> [2] [5], >> >> >> didn't I? ;-/ >> > >> > >> > Indeed. >> > >> >

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-14 Thread Marty
On 12/12/2014 10:46 PM, Joel Rees wrote: 2014/12/13 3:44 "Miles Fidelman" : So... in all of this thread, I have yet to see anybody actually talk about 9p or plumber - details, and more importantly, in comparison to D-Bus. People are concerned about impacts to their particular use cases, whic

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.12.2014 05:10, Joel Rees a écrit : 2014/12/13 1:29 : > > Le 12.12.2014 16:46, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> I did say it was not the dbus you download from freedesktop.org [2] [5], >> didn't I? ;-/ > > > Indeed. > > >> My understanding is that it is not just a port. Re-written from

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-13 Thread seeker5528
On 12/12/2014 2:35 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 12.12.2014 06:13, seeker5528 a écrit : Personally I would prefer software X gets a poke in the arm and a message indicating network status changed, screen orientation changed, configuration changed here, there was an event in so

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/13 1:29 : > > Le 12.12.2014 16:46, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> I did say it was not the dbus you download from freedesktop.org [5], >> didn't I? ;-/ > > > Indeed. > > >> My understanding is that it is not just a port. Re-written from >> scratch, I think. Stuff that just tries to be a lazy man

Re: Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/13 3:44 "Miles Fidelman" : > > So... in all of this thread, I have yet to see anybody actually talk about 9p or plumber - details, and more importantly, in comparison to D-Bus. > > I mean, 9p has been in the Linux Kernal for years (as compared to, say, kdbus), and it is actually used in som

Re: Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
So... in all of this thread, I have yet to see anybody actually talk about 9p or plumber - details, and more importantly, in comparison to D-Bus. I mean, 9p has been in the Linux Kernal for years (as compared to, say, kdbus), and it is actually used in some interesting places (erlang-on-xen, l

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 12.12.2014 16:46, Joel Rees a écrit : I did say it was not the dbus you download from freedesktop.org [5], didn't I? ;-/ Indeed. My understanding is that it is not just a port. Re-written from scratch, I think. Stuff that just tries to be a lazy man's sockets largely left out, I think. I

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/12 23:30 : > Le 12.12.2014 14:55, Joel Rees a écrit : >> 2014/12/12 21:08 : >> > Le 12.12.2014 13:05, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : >> >> On Jo, 11 dec 14, 17:33:51, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org [2] >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Plus, it's not portable >> >>> (anyone have seen dbus on windows? n

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 12.12.2014 14:55, Joel Rees a écrit : 2014/12/12 21:08 : > > > > Le 12.12.2014 13:05, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > >> On Jo, 11 dec 14, 17:33:51, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org [2] wrote: >>> >>> Plus, it's not portable >>> (anyone have seen dbus on windows? not sure, but I doubt it's

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 12.12.2014 14:54, Richard Owlett a écrit : I.E. "Who is responsible for the integrity of *MY* system?" The correct answer is the proverbial "Me, Myself, and I." It is most definitely not an individual nor group whom I've never met. There is most definitely a need for such systems as the va

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/12 21:08 : > > > > Le 12.12.2014 13:05, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > >> On Jo, 11 dec 14, 17:33:51, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> Plus, it's not portable >>> (anyone have seen dbus on windows? not sure, but I doubt it's on *BSD, too) >>> unlike sockets. >> >> >> From http://www

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 11.12.2014 18:21, Richard Owlett a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [snip] Now, if you think multi-user OSes are not that good, I think there is an OS with a different kernel somewhere (not Linux, not *BSD, not Hurd, not Windows, not ReactO

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 12.12.2014 13:14, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Vi, 12 dec 14, 11:35:03, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, you have to choose between: _ having a daemon running everytime, and an application which needs to listen at it's socket everytime (I guess it's how dbus works? If someone have

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 dec 14, 11:35:03, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > So, you have to choose between: > _ having a daemon running everytime, and an application which needs to > listen at it's socket everytime (I guess it's how dbus works? If someone > have any clue about this part of internal, I wo

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 12.12.2014 13:05, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Jo, 11 dec 14, 17:33:51, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Plus, it's not portable (anyone have seen dbus on windows? not sure, but I doubt it's on *BSD, too) unlike sockets. From http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/ D-Bus

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 dec 14, 17:33:51, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Plus, it's not portable > (anyone have seen dbus on windows? not sure, but I doubt it's on *BSD, too) > unlike sockets. From http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/ D-Bus is very portable to any Linux or UNIX flavor, an

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 12.12.2014 06:13, seeker5528 a écrit : On 12/11/2014 8:33 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 18:59, Marty a écrit : If this proves feasible, that's what I hope to do. I just want to know if anyone thinks it's a good idea, before I commit time and resources. My kno

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.12.2014 20:27, Martin Read a écrit : On 11/12/14 17:21, Richard Owlett wrote: There is a market (how large???) for a single user single task computer and OS. It's very large indeed! Apple, and the various customers (e.g. Samsung, LG, HTC) of Google and Microsoft, are quite enthusiasti

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.12.2014 18:21, Richard Owlett a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [snip] Now, if you think multi-user OSes are not that good, I think there is an OS with a different kernel somewhere (not Linux, not *BSD, not Hurd, not Windows, not ReactOS...) which wants to build a single us

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread seeker5528
On 12/11/2014 8:33 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 18:59, Marty a écrit : If this proves feasible, that's what I hope to do. I just want to know if anyone thinks it's a good idea, before I commit time and resources. My knowledge of all of the issues is sketchy at best.

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/11/2014 11:33 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Well... this model is still very used in enterprises. I do not speak about those old mainframes which are still bought by very huge corporations (at least, I've heard so) Huh? :D Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "Th

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/12/14 17:21, Richard Owlett wrote: There is a market (how large???) for a single user single task computer and OS. It's very large indeed! Apple, and the various customers (e.g. Samsung, LG, HTC) of Google and Microsoft, are quite enthusiastic about selling devices that (superficially)

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [snip] Now, if you think multi-user OSes are not that good, I think there is an OS with a different kernel somewhere (not Linux, not *BSD, not Hurd, not Windows, not ReactOS...) which wants to build a single user system. Can't remember the name, I only rememb

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.12.2014 21:34, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:27:21, Paul E Condon wrote: What is 'PoC'? Probably will be blindly obvious once I've been told. Most likely "Proof of Concept". Yes. By PoC I mean a small set of program/library which demonstrates that something is doab

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.12.2014 18:59, Marty a écrit : On 12/08/2014 10:43 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 14:18, Marty a écrit : I almost tagged this off-topic but it's directed toward ordinary Debian users (with developer backgrounds). I first raised this on modular-debian but I wa

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread claude juif
2014-12-11 13:41 GMT+01:00 Marty : > On 12/11/2014 02:02 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 10 December 2014 18:08:00 Martin Read wrote: >> >>> On 10/12/14 13:26, Marty wrote: >>> > The industry and its plans for FOSS is strongly anti-choice: >>> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread Marty
On 12/11/2014 02:02 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2014 18:08:00 Martin Read wrote: On 10/12/14 13:26, Marty wrote: > The industry and its plans for FOSS is strongly anti-choice: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.h >tml It appears to me th

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 December 2014 18:08:00 Martin Read wrote: > On 10/12/14 13:26, Marty wrote: > > On 12/08/2014 09:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: > >>> I would even deign to > >>> give users a choice in the matter, > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >>> Multi-sea

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/10/2014 at 03:34 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:27:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> What is 'PoC'? Probably will be blindly obvious once I've been >> told. > > Most likely "Proof of Concept". > > Wikipedia's disambiguation pages have generally been quite helpful > for me in

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Marty
On 12/10/2014 01:08 PM, Martin Read wrote: On 10/12/14 13:26, Marty wrote: On 12/08/2014 09:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: I would even deign to give users a choice in the matter, [snip] Multi-seat PC and other anachronisms probably have to go away

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 08/12/2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: >> I would even deign to >> give users a choice in the matter, > [snip] >> Multi-seat PC and other >> anachronisms probably have to go away. > > Choice??? > > Lisi > > Ah, yes choice. As "Multi-seat PC"

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 13:27:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > > What is 'PoC'? Probably will be blindly obvious once I've been told. Most likely "Proof of Concept". Wikipedia's disambiguation pages have generally been quite helpful for me in figuring out this kind of stuff. Kind regards, Andrei -- http:

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Frank
On 10/12/14 03:27 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20141208_1643+0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 14:18, Marty a écrit : I almost tagged this off-topic but it's directed toward ordinary Debian users (with developer backgrounds). I first raised this on modular-debian but I

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20141208_1643+0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 08.12.2014 14:18, Marty a écrit : > >I almost tagged this off-topic but it's directed toward ordinary Debian > >users (with developer backgrounds). I first raised this on > >modular-debian but I want to get some ideas from a wid

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Martin Read
On 10/12/14 13:26, Marty wrote: On 12/08/2014 09:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: I would even deign to give users a choice in the matter, [snip] Multi-seat PC and other anachronisms probably have to go away. Choice??? Lisi The industry and its p

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/08/2014 10:43 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: About anachronism... you should read about what is the minitel*, and then, consider thinking about how most people uses their computers ;) *: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel Anyone remember GTE Telemail?? :) Ric -- My father

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:10:05 PM UTC+5:30, Marty wrote: > On 12/08/2014 09:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: > >> I would even deign to > >> give users a choice in the matter, > > [snip] > >> Multi-seat PC and other > >> anachronisms probably

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-10 Thread Marty
On 12/08/2014 09:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: I would even deign to give users a choice in the matter, [snip] Multi-seat PC and other anachronisms probably have to go away. Choice??? Lisi The industry and its plans for FOSS is strongly anti-ch

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-08 Thread Marty
On 12/08/2014 10:43 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 14:18, Marty a écrit : I almost tagged this off-topic but it's directed toward ordinary Debian users (with developer backgrounds). I first raised this on modular-debian but I want to get some ideas from a wider audien

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.12.2014 14:18, Marty a écrit : I almost tagged this off-topic but it's directed toward ordinary Debian users (with developer backgrounds). I first raised this on modular-debian but I want to get some ideas from a wider audience. I'm starting to get familiar with Plan 9 and D-Bus, to com

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: > I would even deign to > give users a choice in the matter, [snip] > Multi-seat PC and other > anachronisms probably have to go away. Choice??? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-08 Thread Marty
I almost tagged this off-topic but it's directed toward ordinary Debian users (with developer backgrounds). I first raised this on modular-debian but I want to get some ideas from a wider audience. I'm starting to get familiar with Plan 9 and D-Bus, to compare how they try to solve the same set