Re: KDE Interop [Was: D-BUS background]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:40:58PM +0000, Andrew Sobala wrote: 
> First point. If D-BUS could work over CORBA, then not using it could be
> termed oversight. If D-BUS could work over 2 existing mechanisms, CORBA
> _or_ DCOP, then why are you (D-BUS developers) rewriting everything
> instead of reusing existing code?

I don't think this question makes any sense, really. D-BUS doesn't use
CORBA or DCOP.

You could "tunnel it through" those, but that isn't really all that
interesting a thing to do. "Using CORBA" means something more
pervasive than tunneling through or bridging to CORBA.

You need to look at the code and the specs and come up with a much
more concrete question, or plan that you're proposing.

Again, just because things have the same name like "IPC" or contain
similar vague functionality such as "authentication" doesn't mean they
map to each other particularly well. If you aren't looking at the
details you can't really have a meaningful discussion about the design
space.

Havoc