[Opensync-users] Re: IPC (Was: Re: Which plugins to help with (was CVS Access))

[David E. <tw...@us...>]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:07 +0200, Armin Bauer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i wrote a wiki entry about the planned IPC mechanism:
> http://www.opensync.org/wiki/IPC
> 
> How you can help depends on how good you know ipc mechanisms. There is
> no real difficulty in adding the ipc stuff, its just a lot of work to
> write :)

Be careful when planning this. IPC and RPC has been done many times
before and I know it is tempting to reinvent the wheel, either due to
"not invented here" syndrome or due to something else.

I suggest taking a look at D-BUS. It's quite nice, IMHO:

  http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdbus

The only problem with D-BUS right now is versioning; there is no
compatibility promised until after 1.0 is released and the D-BUS version
may vary between Linux distros today...

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