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Author: Teodoro Santoni
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To: James Powell
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?
Good evening,

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 01:44:32PM -0700, James Powell wrote:
> So exactly what do we use in place of D-Bus as a replacement Userspace IPC handler and protocol that is Generic to POSIX systems and UNIX?
>
> If we rip out D-Bus what do we use in it's place that is drop in compatible? You're talking about tearing apart a LOT of packages just to satisfy a grievance.


nanomsg, sunrpc, a common specification to use pipes where needed and msgpacks in socket where needed, ya name it. But...

> This is outside the scope and mission statement of Devuan, and I'm sorry if you dislike D-Bus so much, but it is accepted and POSIX compliant software. It's not perfect, but are any protocols that allow interapplication and interprocess communication across a system and network going to be not be complex to work?


... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and is
documented on a random basis, when you compare it to the rest of GNU/Fedora
it's... like GTK: it sucks, there are alternatives but it's a PITA to port
away 'cause a lot of big codebases uses them as foundation.

> Again, a witch hunt on software is not necessary, needed, or appropriate for Devuan.


And this is not the workplace of the guy who carves in stone *all* the
pinpoints, bikesheds and milestones for Devuan. Just *some*.
Most of what you read is forum talk, tbh.

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Teodoro Santoni

Something is wrong. I don't wanna compile 20 KB of Go code to list files.