Re: RFC: adding fd-passing to win32

Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <5845090.31tnzDBltd@tjmaciei-mobl5>
On Monday, 18 April 2022 15:03:34 PDT Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> I don’t understand why D-Bus is needed for Windows. As I understand it,
> D-Bus is part of the “Free Desktop” protocols. And Windows is not a
> “Free Desktop”. It has its own proprietary ways of doing things,
> anyway; aren’t their people still using COM, DCOM and OLE?

Whether they are or aren't is irrelevant. D-Bus is useful on Windows to 
support applications originally written for Linux / Unix without too much 
modification. It'll require some, but the barrier of entry can be lowered.

So, yes, D-Bus on Windows is very useful and should be maintained.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
   Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering
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