[sugar] [IAEP] Sugar Camp Cambridge 17-21 Nov

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>> Switching to XMLRPC?! This seems like some massive sidestep which would
>> break the existing stuff as well as preventing any code sharing between
>> Telepathy apps on Sugar and Telepathy apps on any other Linux platforms.
>> D-Bus and the Telepathy APIs are the emerging standards for accessing
>> real-time communications functionality on Linux desktops and embedded
>> devices. It's already in GNOME in the Empathy client, as well as part of
>> the GNOME Mobile platform, so Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin
>> platforms, and there's ongoing interest in using it in KDE which we hope
>> to push forward at the combined Akademy/Guadec next summer.
>
> I actually did read Brendan's proposal as to add some xmlrpc in sugar
> so external components for example in the school server could
> interface with some aspects of it. But now I realize he said "in
> place".


Yeah - I don't think I buy into moving away from dbus. Smarter,
leaner/meaner use of dbus, sure! Other aspects of Brendan's proposal
were quite interesting and in line with work that is happening
already, so... :-)

cheers,



m
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