On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:55 PM, David Sommerseth <open...@sf.lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: > > > One of the things which have struck me is that D-Bus is adopted a lot > of places, and its internal API have been considered stable for about > 10 years or more. Even though there are areas where D-Bus seems a bit > over-engineered, it has proved to be a very useful IPC mechanism for a > lot of software.
>From what I can tell, the main advantage D- Bus would offer is that it would allow multiple processes to manage an OpenVPN process. I don't see a big benefit from that, but it might be nice, I suppose. D-Bus may also include some security protections, although I haven't seen anything specific about that. However, for OpenVPN on OS X (now macOS), I see little advantage. Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see any simple way to integrate D-Bus into an app such as Tunnelblick on OS X. In fact, a Google Search for "'OS X' "D-Bus'" resulted mostly in mentions of problems with D-Bus in specific programs and how to get around them, and one seven-year-old email offering an OS X version of the D-Bus library. I assume macports has it, but that didn't show up, nor did any official "D-Bus" repository. (Is there one?) I also question the idea of relying on yet another big, complicated external library, which must be updated as issues arise (as they do with complex programs and libraries). On Linux, I gather it is part of the OS so I suppose that isn't a concern, but it would be on OS X (and Windows?). So I am not enthusiastic about integrating a D-Bus interface to OpenVPN into Tunnelblick (I haven't even integrated of all of the current management interface into Tunnelblick, nor does there seem to be much demand for me to do so). But maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon, or maybe it's just late and I'm tired. Any pointers (for example, to a reference implementation of integrating D-Bus into an OS X app) would be welcome, and could very well change my mind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
