[Openicc] GSoC 2013 preparations

[Richard Hughes]

On 19 March 2013 00:44, Graeme Gill <graeme at argyllcms.com> wrote:
> You can't assume D-bus. Not all systems have it

colord is Linux only, and nowadays it's impossible to even boot a
modern Linux system without DBus. My basic argument is that if a file
is running on OS X then any tool should query ColorSync, and if
running on Windows to use WCS. There's no point duplicating where the
data is stored on those systems.

>But a file is an easy lowest common denominator,
> with minimal dependencies.

Standardising on the lowest common denominator rarely makes a fluid
capable API. I'll expand more on the UCMM reply.

Richard