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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RPC Mechanisms (was: Re: [PATCH] bug in latest cvs
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-09-25 16:02:37
Message-ID: 200409251802.37717.schumacher () kde ! org
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On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:59, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> DCE is one of the most... unbelievably comprehensive bits
> of engineering i have ever come across - and that's just the
> runtime environment (let alone the projects that then used it,
> such as DCE/DFS).

Do you have some pointers where can be found more information about the 
unbelievable compresehensiveness of DCE/RPC?

> DBUS is about as close to the shit mechanism "XML-RPC" as you can
> get, in fact it is WORSE.

What's the problem with XML-RPC?

> you should be aware that, at some point in time, time and
> money permitting, i plan to do a complete and total coversion
> of all KDE source code to use DCE/RPC instead of DCOP.  irrespective
> of whether anyone actually "likes" it.

I'm looking forward to this. This will be interesting. In fact, if KDE 
programs would more extensively use the dcopidl compiler, replacing the 
RPC machanism would be fairly simple. It could boild down to write 
another output backend for dcopidl (by the way, this would be a really 
simple way to port DCOP to Windows, adjust the dcopidl compiler to 
generate code that uses an RPC mechanism which is easily available 
under Windows, whatever that might be).

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
 
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