2014/12/13 1:29 :
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> Le 12.12.2014 16:46, Joel Rees a écrit :
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>> I did say it was not the dbus you download from freedesktop.org
[2] [5],
>> didn't I? ;-/
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>
> Indeed.
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>
>> My understanding is that it is not just a port. Re-written from
>> scratch, I think. Stuff that just tries to be a lazy man's
sockets
>> largely left out, I think.
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>
> I would be more interested to take a look at the alternative's
code, than than to the original's. The few tools'code I've seen of
same tool but implemented by the net/open/freeBSD and versions I
could
find in linux, had a huge difference in terms of code clarity.
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>
>> I would not say that you were exactly wrong. Portability is not
just
>> a matter of getting things to compile, and there are some
features of
>> dbus that one would just as soon leave out when re-implementing
it.
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>
> Well, maybe dbus itself is not portable, nor clean (I said maybe.
Code cleanness is a matter of opinion, and I only have read 2 source
files just now) but if there is another implementation around, then
at
least what it provides can be provided in other systems, eventually
in
a cleaner way.
>
> Just curious, what's the name of this alternative? I would like to
see if it could replace the original, or why not taking a quick look
at it's source code. Just to build my own opinion.
>
openbsd's website allows you to browse their source. Their dbus would
be in their ports (packages) tree, I think. Try looking at dbus*
under
here:
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/ [3]