[Portland] Current plan summarized

[Dan Kegel]

On 3/15/06, nf2 <nf2 at scheinwelt.at> wrote:
> I'm still not convinced regarding the static linking of the interface
> library. We have not discussed this thoroughly and perhaps it's too
> early to decide. I think there are two options here:
>
> 1) Standardize protocol, socket locations, dapi-daemon startup-scripts...
> 2) Standardize the API of a dynamically linked dapi-client library (You
> can still have convenience wrappers for C++,...), hiding all the IPC
> complexity.

There's a third option:

3) Standardize on a transport that already has a daemon,
e.g. DBus.  Then we don't need to create a new daemon.
Each additional daemon at startup time costs the user
time and RAM.  We want at all costs to avoid bloating the
OS by slowing down boot or stealing RAM, I think.

- Dan