[Portland] D-BUS replaces dcop!

[Bryce Harrington]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:55:05AM +0300, Carlos.Guerreiro at nokia.com wrote:
> So do I. The last thing we need is yet another IPC protocol or library.
> We use D-BUS extensively in Maemo and the Nokia 770 for "Desktop" integration:
> - As a basis for the Telepathy IM/VOIP Integration Framework and Galago
> - As an IPC backend for libebook/e-d-s, gnome-vfs and gconf, replacing Bonobo/CORBA
> - For device state management
> And a number of other things
> 
> We'll use it more and more as a mechanism for exposing system-wide services.
> 
> As everybody else, we're looking forward to API stability in D-BUS and there
> have been glitches here and there, but by and large D-BUS does the job.
> And it is hugely valuable to have a common cross-desktop mechanism.
> No roll-your-own IPC please.

Since you have experience with D-BUS, could you send a patch to
demonstrate how to take advantage of it in Portland?

I have no experience with D-BUS (I read a little about dcop but never
used it either), but I'd definitely like to see how it'd work in
action. 

Thanks,
Bryce