[Portland] Current plan summarized

[Dan Kegel]

On 3/22/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon at joncruz.org> wrote:
> >>> ... standardizing IPC means you have to make all those final
> >>> decisions about:
> >>> ...
> >>> -) Perhaps clients have to read a config-file to look up the socket
> >>> name. Where to find the config-file?
> >>
> >> Perhaps Zeroconf for discovery?
> >
> > No, thanks.  Let's keep it simple...
>
> Have you actually compared the complexity of using Zeroconf with
> manually implementing the equivalent functionality?

Have you considered whether we need discovery at all?
A hardcoded socket name might do just fine, and oddly enough,
that's what dbus uses for its system bus; see
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-bus-types
- Dan


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