Re: D/Bus / CORBA moving forward ...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:38:19PM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: 
> 	To show good faith, I hope to engage with the D/BUS
> discussion, review the code / direction, and provide whatever insight
> I have into ways to help it succeed. It is my conviction that creating
> a robust, friendly IPC system with which people can interact is a more
> complex and intricate thing than may appear at first sight. In the
> end, I think you end up having to create a type system, and an IDL
> like contract definition language. A brain-dump to follow at some
> stage.
> 
> 	So: in summary; this is not a binary choice - it is possible
> for both systems to exist, and work together to give users a better
> desktop experience.
> 
> 	I look forward to working more pleasantly with many of you,
> 

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate you being the bigger man here. 
I apologize for all my part in this.

If you want, send me a login/crypted password (<= 8 chars in password)
and I'll set up a CVS account so you can track latest D-BUS code
(and any other freedesktop.org CVS goings-on).

Havoc