RFC: adding fd-passing to win32

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 22 August 2022 19:53:26 -03 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> That, to me, is a remarkably long list of positive achievements. I was
> particularly impressed with this:

No argument there. The achievement is impressive as-is, given the number of 
volunteers and the lack of help from the vendor.

The problem is getting stuck at the 95% compatibility with very sharp and 
important rough edges. Some of those, as Ralf pointed out, are showstoppers or 
nearly so.

> That’s not necessarily the best example, given that the KDE frameworks
> are built on Qt, which already has a native Windows port. So they had
> an easier path to try to achieve what they wanted.
> 
> The question is, how would this affect Windows apps trying to use D-Bus?

Since QtDBus is a Qt essential library, having libdbus-1 work on Windows makes 
the QtDBus module work on Windows too.

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