On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:33:31PM +0000, Joe Smith wrote: > "Pierre Habouzit" <madcoder@artemis.madism.org> wrote in message > [🔎] 20080108165521.GB4783@artemis.madism.org">news:[🔎] 20080108165521.GB4783@artemis.madism.org... > >I assume that it's > >possible to write tools that directly hit your netconf server withouth > >going through the dbus daemon, making it lightweight and a really good > >solution even for small systems. > > That is how it currently works. The idea is to have two packages, one > that is the actual service with some kind of protocol > working over a control socket. A second package would provide a DBus > interface, and basically translate DBus messages to whatever the native > message format of the control pipe is. > > However, he would still need some sort of protocol for the control > socket. > > The alternative is to have the control socket use the D-Bus system, > meaning only one package is needed, but messages > would need to pass through the dbus-daemon in order to be recieved. Well that wasn't what I understood, but I'm really not a D-Bus expert at all :) Though it doesn't makes sense to let the D-Bus connector be a separated component as you then only pull the library which is of a reasonable size. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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