[Portland] Current plan summarized

[Jon Cruz]

On Thursday, March 16, 2006, at 09:34 AM, nf2 wrote:
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> ... standardizing IPC means you have to make all those final decisions 
> about:
>
> -) How to start the daemon if it's not running? Running a 
> startup-script?
> -) When to start the daemon (at the beginning of a desktop session / 
> on demand?)
> -) How many daemon processes (single/one per application)?
> -) Name/location of the socket? (careful! it might have to stay in the 
> same place for the next 10 years)
> -) Which protocol to use (homegrown, dbus-1.0, dbus-2.0,...)?
> -) Perhaps clients have to read a config-file to look up the socket 
> name. Where to find the config-file?

Perhaps Zeroconf for discovery?