Re: D-BUS versus GDOMAP (Was: D-BUS equivalent)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 30 Aug 2004, at 13:45, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Alex Perez wrote:
> > D-bus is basically "DO Done Right" (with a proper authentication 
> > mechanism and significantly more focus on security. I've suggested a 
> > few  times in #GNUstep (and maybe here on the list as well, check the 
> > archives) that we replace gdomap with it, since it's a lot more 
> > secure, more generally accepted as "canonical", has a much larger 
> > userbase, is a  Freedesktop.org spec/app, meaning that Those Other 
> > Desktops(tm) will eventually use it (and quite possibly Xorg itself 
> > at a future date (after 6.8 is released, for sure)
> > In any event, with alexm's default set, you do not need gdomap 
> > running for local-host DO (you only need it for inter-host DO) 
> > Personally I think that should be the default, but I'm relatively 
> > convinced that Richard Frith-McDonald would disagree with me on that 
> > point.
>
> As I am not following #GNUstep I cannot remember hearing this 
> suggestion before. So I will give the DBUS specification a closer 
> look. Also I would like to learn, what Alexanders "default set" is.

I can't remember the actual default, but turning on GSMocOSXCompatible 
has the same effect (plus the other runtime compatibility tweaks).

>  Perhaps this could also help to run GNUstep in more hostile 
> environments like MS Windows.

Only if someone will implement it for windows.  At the momement we only 
have tcp/ip socket based communication on windows.