[arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

[Nathan Wayde]

On 03/12/09 18:14, Arvid Picciani wrote:
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> I'll add some additional points:
> - it's implementation is large broken.
how so?
> - most software depending on it, will crash when dbus
file bug reports and get developers to write proper software.
> crashes, or fail to start uncracefully, or behave unexpected.
i've honestly never seen dbus crash but then again i've experienced 
almost none of the issues people often complain about with Linux
> - some systems are actually not supported by hal while
> they are by udev and have system-v IPCs.
got nothing to do with dbus
> - reinventing the wheel and calling it super-boat-2000
> isn't going to help anyone. Instead of fixing problems,
> people constantly create new ones.
lol
> - FDO is hierarchic and polical level.
what
> Dbus is hierarchic on technical level.
> FDO wishes to provide a better experience to users by
> integrating all software nicely into one global truth.
> The Foss ecosystem is not hierarchic.
> The Foss ecosystem does not require a single truth
> to rule them all.
> The Foss ecosystem does not require to be competitive
> with OtherOs.
>
what does any of that have to do with dbus in a technical sense?
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>
> Arvid
> Asgaard Technologies
>