D-BUS Binding

[paolo]

Haskell bindings to the D-BUS message bug system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another.

Interested Mentors

• Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@…>

Interested Students

• Luis Araujo <luis@…>
• Johannes Woolard (notanotheridiot) <johannes.wollard@…>
• Henning Günther (der_eq) <h.guenther@…>
• Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@…>
• Will Farrington <wcfarrington@…>

[BjornBringert]

Done already? < http://neugierig.org/software/hdbus/>

[guest]

Bjorn: It's a heck of a lot better than starting from scratch, but I don't think it's done. I sent Evan some patches for hdbus, but didn't get it to the point where I could put it on Hackage, and Evan doesn't think it's complete either:

"As the darcs logs for that show, I haven't touched that project [hdbus] in 19 months. (The patch from three months ago was submitted by some random stranger, and I applied it just because they thought it would be helpful.)"

"I appreciate your patches, but much of this stuff isn't really usable yet. I mostly had them online as backups of my local copies. I don't think that Memcache library, for example, really does anything..."

(I hope he doesn't mind me quoting from an email to me.)

-- gwern

[duncan]

There is also kolmodin's implementation (which works at the protocol level, not as a binding) which is partially complete.

Perhaps we could persuade kolmodin to propose the project and mentor it.

[duncan]

As I understand it, kolmodin wants to finish this project himself so I'm marking it as not a good proposal.

[guest]

Replying to guest:

Bjorn: It's a heck of a lot better than starting from scratch, but I don't think it's done. I sent Evan some patches for hdbus, but didn't get it to the point where I could put it on Hackage, and Evan doesn't think it's complete either: "As the darcs logs for that show, I haven't touched that project [hdbus] in 19 months. (The patch from three months ago was submitted by some random stranger, and I applied it just because they thought it would be helpful.)" "I appreciate your patches, but much of this stuff isn't really usable yet. I mostly had them online as backups of my local copies. I don't think that Memcache library, for example, really does anything..." (I hope he doesn't mind me quoting from an email to me.) -- gwern

For convenience, I packaged them up (better), and stuck'em on Hackage:  http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/DBus-0.1

[dons]

Too old.