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

[Norman Rasmussen]

AFAIK, win32 has something called NamedPipes, which function much like
unix sockets.

On 14/07/05, Trejkaz <trejkaz at trypticon.org> wrote:
> Quoting Maciek Niedzielski <machekku at miroku.uaznia.net>:
> > 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)
> 
> Well, there is always XML-RPC... that can be used just as easily on a local
> machine as it can over a network.
> 
> But you could argue that even on the same "OS" people can't agree on the IPC
> method to use.  For instance, KDE will always stick with DCOP, at least until
> D-BUS is better (which it currently isn't...)
> 
> I agree that plugins are the way to go.  That way the GNOME junkies can have
> their D-BUS plugin, the KDE junkies can have their DCOP plugin.  And
> people who
> want a completely platform-agnostic solution can use XML-RPC. :-)
> 
> When I think about it more, an XML-RPC plugin would have some even
> better/cooler
> uses.  It could implement XML-RPC over Jabber inside Psi, and use the same
> remote control mechanism across a network as we use on the local machine.
> 
> TX
> 
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