[Portland] Transport mechanism

[Bryce Harrington]

I think you'll find in the archives that there's been openness for
having it ported to use D-BUS if someone is so inclined.  Presently the
attention has been focused on the API and scope of functionality.

Bryce

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:09:27PM -0800, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't been following this very closely, but really please consider 
> using D-BUS.  IPC is not easy to make stable, efficient, or fault 
> tolerant.  This daemon is going to have to be rock solid if it's going 
> to handle the requests of real life 3rd party applications.  D-BUS has 
> had a lot of this work put into it, and has been accepted as the right 
> way forward for both GNOME and KDE.
> 
> I wonder if you will receive a enough traction from the distros, some of 
> whom heavy backed D-BUS development, by inventing your own hand-rolled IPC.
> 
> Obviously, you are doing all the work, so it's your call.
> 
> -Alex