clarity of concept [LWN.net]

clarity of concept

Posted Nov 7, 2014 15:28 UTC (Fri) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855)
In reply to: clarity of concept by foom
Parent article: Kdbus meets linux-kernel

why would you port the systemd DBus API?

the GDBus and QtDBus API are already portable, thread safe, well documented, and available on various systems, if you don't want to use libdbus-1.

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clarity of concept

Posted Nov 7, 2014 19:01 UTC (Fri) by krake (guest, #55996) [Link]

Indeed!

I think a lot of people are under the misconception that libdbus-1 is intended to be used by application developers.

Its main purpose is to provide the basic protocol support for usage in actual application libraries, very similar to how XCB provides basic X11 protocol support for toolkits.

And quite some of the application developer facing D-Bus libraries have moved to their own protocol implementations, e.g. to provide better integration with the target stack's capabilities.