demarshalling messages

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 18:31 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007 14:10 +0100, Dafydd Harries wrote:
> 
> > A completely different approach would be to serialise DBusMessage to/from
> > XML, but this would be less bandwidth-efficient and more code than just
> > using DBus' own marshalling.
> 
> However, it would have the advantage of not requiring D-Bus at either end of 
> the connection and could be translated into another protocol (depending on 
> the use cases)

That is not the point of D-Tubes.  Tubes provides a generic easy to use
way of getting a raw connection to another machine or host of machines.
D-Tubes allows you to use D-Bus over tubes.If you want to use another
protocol just use Tubes.  Defining yet another protocol is just bloat.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>