dbus questions [was Re: Merging gio into glib]

[John Ehresman <jpe wingware com>]

Hi,

A few dbus integration questions from an application developer who is 
somewhat familiar with gtk internals and the win32 port.

* Would gtk be usable on posix-like platforms that do not have dbus 
installed and configured?  Does OS X fall into this category?

* What happens when something is added on Linux that isn't easily 
implementable on win32, OS X, or another platform?  One could imagine 
some sort of interface that allowed a capability to be implemented or not.

* Where does code that interfaces with dbus or native api's go?  I think 
most native platform specific code in the gtk+ tarball is in gdk now; 
will gdk remain the primary place for such code?

Thanks,

John