Upstart Client Library

[Scott James Remnant]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:52 -0700, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:

> So any application or platform that would like to use Upstart and would
> like to talk to it using a client library would need to be GPLed? Or do
> unnatural acts like introduce an proxy process inbetween just to avoid
> this?
> 
I think that is an argument for a standard communication proxy between
disparate applications on a machine, D-Bus provides this quite nicely.

> But like Michael points out though, just being able to use libdbus
> without the rest of the D-Bus baggage, certainly paves a way out.
> 
You would need to have the D-Bus daemon, otherwise there's little useful
you can do.

> We are hoping to find a stable point in the Upstart devlopment tree with
> dbus support and without cgroups(it introduces a kernel version
> dependency that we can't handle) and start a testing/hardening effort,
> that we would like to contribute back to Upstart. Is there a good point
> that you would suggest for us to start doing the above?
> 
The 0.5.0 release will be this.

Scott
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