2014/12/15 0:28 <berenger.mo...@neutralite.org>: > > > > Le 13.12.2014 05:10, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> 2014/12/13 1:29 : >> >> > >> > Le 12.12.2014 16:46, Joel Rees a écrit : >> >> >> >> I did say it was not the dbus you download from freedesktop.org >> [2] [5], >> >> >> didn't I? ;-/ >> > >> > >> > Indeed. >> > >> > >> >> My understanding is that it is not just a port. Re-written from >> >> scratch, I think. Stuff that just tries to be a lazy man's >> sockets >> >> largely left out, I think. >> > >> > >> > I would be more interested to take a look at the alternative's >> code, than than to the original's. The few tools'code I've seen of >> same tool but implemented by the net/open/freeBSD and versions I could >> find in linux, had a huge difference in terms of code clarity. >> > >> > >> >> I would not say that you were exactly wrong. Portability is not >> just >> >> a matter of getting things to compile, and there are some >> features of >> >> dbus that one would just as soon leave out when re-implementing >> it. >> > >> > >> > Well, maybe dbus itself is not portable, nor clean (I said maybe. >> Code cleanness is a matter of opinion, and I only have read 2 source >> files just now) but if there is another implementation around, then at >> least what it provides can be provided in other systems, eventually in >> a cleaner way. >> > >> > Just curious, what's the name of this alternative? I would like to >> see if it could replace the original, or why not taking a quick look >> at it's source code. Just to build my own opinion. >> > >> >> openbsd's website allows you to browse their source. Their dbus would >> be in their ports (packages) tree, I think. Try looking at dbus* under >> here: >> >> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/ [3] >> > > From what I can see, it's only a bunch of patches. Probably patches built on original sources, so, well, it's the same implementation with few more patches. >
I don't think I could call it "only a bunch of patches." I could comment further after I gain more experience with the way they work, but you'll want to note the comment "in the attic" attached to several of the files in the tree. -- Joel Rees
