Question about goal of Windows/Mac frameworks

Christoph Cullmann cullmann at absint.com
Wed Oct 21 06:14:32 UTC 2015


Hi,

>> Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> hat am 20. Oktober 2015 um 19:49 geschrieben:
>> Regarding dbus especifically, I see the problem in 2). You can bundle
>> it, but then if it's already ran by another process the other one will
>> have to be used, which is where the dbus mess starts.
> There is work in progress to provide dbus installations as standalone package or
> bundled with an application on Windows. See
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92080. Version 2.18 of the
> umbrello installer [1] will have a bundled dbus-daemon providing an install
> path limited session bus, which is separated from the main session bus. An
> alternative will be to install a standalone dbus package [2] which can be used
> by single KDE applications installed by a separate installers. Each KDE
> application can be configured to use the bundled dbus or the standalone.
whereas I think that is great news to deploy stuff that really requires dbus,
actually, e.g. for the umbrello use case: why do I need it at all?

Greetings
Christoph

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