[systemd-devel] Compatibility between D-Bus and kdbus

[Simon McVittie]

On 01/10/14 21:40, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> If packages want compatibility with both kdbus/systemd and classic
> dbus1, then I'd suggest to simply continue shipping the old XML policy
> file fragments, plus the new systemd .busname unit. [...] No
> need to add anything new that would be a stop-gap and little else.

I know you don't care about portability beyond Linux for kdbus and
systemd, and you intend to consider non-kdbus systems to be legacy.
That's fine, that's your prerogative as maintainer of systemd.

However, dbus (as in, the reference implementation of D-Bus) is
portable, and I don't really want its use on non-Linux to have to carry
around the XML policy language as non-deprecated forever. So I'm tempted
to add kdbus' rather more realistic model to dbus-daemon anyway, just so
we can move the status of the XML policy language to "seriously, don't".

    S