GSoC idea

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 23 February 2012 Feb, Smit Patel wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Sebastian Sauer <mail at dipe.org> wrote:
> 
> > **
> > On 02/23/2012 01:31 PM, Smit Patel wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'd like to propose a GSoC project. Here's the brief description about
> > project idea.
> > Provide a dbus API that provides an generic interface that can be used by
> > external bibliography engines (xbiblio, kbibtex, bibus)
> >
> >
> > dbus is optional[1] and so would be everything that depends on it. So, why
> > dbus? Why not just a plugin? If it should be in another process (stability,
> > long-running things, shared among Words-processes, etc) then why not for
> > example QLocalServer?
> >
> 
> If dbus is not available for windows and OSX then we can rule that out.

Well, actually dbus _is_ available on both Windows and OSX. It's just a bit of a bother on Windows and rather a big bother on OSX.

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