demarshalling messages

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 19:31 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007 19:16 +0100, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I am either missing a couple of postings of this thread or this information 
> has so far not been available to the majority of discussion participants.
> 
> Hmm, thinking about it, it could also be a clever joke along the "the Internet 
> is a series of tubes" fun.

It is ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOoQFa5ug8

Just remember "the Internet is not a truck"

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