2009/12/3 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto <denisfalqueto@gmail.com> 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@gmail.com 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