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From: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Governance question???
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Greetings.

On Thu, 17 May 2012 17:45:00 +0200 dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com=
> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 of May 2012 15:57:07 Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 May 2012 14:34:39 +0000
> >=20
> > sl@9front.org wrote:
> > > EthanG will be disciplined.
> > >=20
> > > -sl
> >=20
> > What? Did I forget to promulgate dbus again? But you all only decide
> > you like dbus at the end of a hard day, I wrote all that before lunch=
.
>=20
> i have used dbus recently, via dbus-send(1) and qdbusviewer. it's like =
a=20
> filesystem populated with filesystem servers, only that you can't mount=
(3),=20
> open(3), stat(3), etc. anything.

Dbus  is  a  message bus full of flaws. Objects need to be announced, in
the protocol is a switch between text and binary, you can get the object
definitions  as XML and the API, which forces you to use a 160 character
terminal, is wrapping you around glib.

Every dbus user should be forced to read this: [0]

Maybe you only mistakenly took the alternative object notation as a path
as some kind of filesystem.


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann

[0] http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html