2009/12/3 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto > <denisfalqueto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, fellow archers. >> >> I've created a new email with a new subject, so that who wants to >> ignore this completely, can do it easily. >> >> The recent past discussions about DBus got me thinking about an >> unanswered question: what is technically wrong with DBus? After some >> time researching about that, I can't find that answer by myself. >> >> DBus is just a way to make applications communicate. It can be used in >> several languages, namely C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and many >> more. There are tools for it in bash, although there's some >> limitations with that, but is very easy to do something fast in python >> or perl or ruby or... >> >> It (DBus) has some interesting mechanisms to activate daemons just >> when needed. I find this feature very interesting, so that you only >> spend the resources when you really need. >> >> One restriction is that it is not network enabled, so it only works >> locally. But in the home page, there is a invitation to improve that >> situation (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusRemote). >> >> Anyway, I would like to read what others have to say about DBus, but >> please give techinical reasons. I don't want to know who likes and who >> dislikes DBus. And I don't have anything against who dislikes DBus. >> Everyone is entitled to an opinion. > > Mechanisms have existed for like 20 years before dbus to communicate > with other programs. dbus is just another way to do it that has a > smell of "architecture astronomy" - as if they all scoffed at the > actual ways to do IPC on various Unicies and said "Oh, I can design > better". > > That's why I dislike it. > Hi, Aaron didn't give any tech reason in his answear, and i don't think someone will do, except the one you already said at your first e-mail(no network). People who don't like DBus find it just unecessary. I like DBus because I belive it unify the IPC in a way others methods can't. It's more a question of taste than tech. []'s -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fotanus@xxxxxxxxx Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ ----- "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - Gandalf
