[Psi-devel] Re: Task#340 - Communication Between Running Psi Instances

[Maciek Niedzielski]

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Remko Troncon wrote:
>>1. IPC is OS-dependent, and we don't like such things in Psi.
> 
> Well, i don't think that's entirely true. We just prefer to do
> it platform-independent if possible, but otherwise we just create
> an interface and implement it on every OS.

You cannot provide the same the same IPC interface on all platforms,
because different OSes have different IPC methods.
(I mean the interface used from "outside" of Psi)


> I don't think i understand your mail. What are the use cases for what you
> want to do ? One of them is opening XMPP urls externally. Are there others ?

- - preventing many instances of the same profile running at the same time
- - command line option to run a specified profile
- - preview/install JISP files
- - sending files (on Windows it could look like: right click on file,
Send To, Jabber contact)
- - CLI option for showing/hiding the roster (Task410)

> Is there a good reason to do it with dbus ?

I don't know ;)
As I said, before I could think well about Linux implementation, someone
of forums suggested using dbus. I don't know why the user wanted to have
dbus in psi.

> Are there better ways ?

I'm waiting for any suggestions.

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Maciek
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