Re: Portals and Sandboxing

[Michael Ikey Doherty <michael i doherty intel com>]

On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 12:57 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 15:22 +0000, Michael Ikey Doherty wrote:
>
> > The idea is to wrap the dbus interface, etc, in a "portal" library.
>
> But I'd expect that the DBus API is the underlying ultimately stable
> thing, and the portal library (where it need exist at all) is just a
> convenience wrapper.  Right?
That is the idea yes. "portal" library is merely a wrapper/connection to
a user-run service that essentially cannot change API. A bit of trial
and error would need to first be employed, to find a generic enough
interface suitable to never changing. Perhaps merely wrapping varags
into a dict over dbus would be enough.



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