<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hello D-Bus people! I have started working on Pontarius 0.1, a set of free software media server programs. [1]Pontarius will build services on top of the [2]Extended Personal Media Network (XPMN) architecture, as defined by Dirk Meyer. We will have a server program that will transfer resources end-to-end encrypted over XMPP. I also want some kind of client that can access these resources at the request of other applications. So naturally I'm considering using D-Bus. Now, it would be great if the media accessor client could be interoperable in that I can use the same client code across all platforms (supporting the Python programming language) and understandable in that it has a simple API that is easy to use to access media assets. My idea (having close to zero experience of D-Bus) is to expose my client's through D-Bus for GNU/Linux. I assume I should separate the D-Bus part of my application from the rest of my client's logic so that it doesn't require D-Bus? What would you do for Windows? Would the Windows port for D-Bus be a good choice for my application? Or would implementing an OLE/COM wrapper talking directly to the application be a better way to go? Any particular things to take into consideration for Mac OS? Any comments are welcome! Thanks! [1]: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pontarius.org/">http://www.pontarius.org/</a> [2]: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/diss/docs/00011878.pdf">http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/diss/docs/00011878.pdf</a> Warm regards, Jon Kristensen </body> </html>