Announce - diamond, a DBus enabled DHCP client.

[Simon Kelley <simon thekelleys org uk>]

Following the thread on this list a couple of weeks ago, under the 
unlikely subject of "Late to the party - multiple search domains on the 
network.", I've done some work on a DBus-enabled DHCP client. I hope 
that it's of interest to the NetworkManager people and therefore not 
off-topic for this list.

The result of my hacking stays fairly close to the ideal which was 
thrashed out in that thread. At this point I've not attempted to provide 
slot-in compatibility with Jason's dhclient-based work, partly because 
some bits didn't seem to fit too well, and partly because I didn't have 
a precise enough spec to follow. I think however that it should be 
possible to evolve both towards a common interface, and this release 
makes no promises at all about the stability of the DBus interface in 
advance of that.

The 0.1 release is certainly usable, but not currently well tested. I'd 
appreciate feedback from anybody who wants to try it out. This is the 
first of my code to use libdbus, so any dbus experts who would like to 
sanity-check it would be most welcome.

The tarball includes a quick first go at documenting the DBus interface 
as it currently stands, and also a TODO list of items which I plan to 
tackle before the next release. I developed against dbus 0.31.

In case your wondering:
Dynamic Interface Address Management on Networks Daemon

Tarball at http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/diamond/diamond-0.1.tar.gz

License is GPL v2.




Cheers,

Simon.