Re:DBus, FreeDesktop, and lots of madness
by mmastrac on Sunday November 23, 2014 @02:58PM
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That's not fair at all. I know it's en vogue to hate on some of the parts of the Linux desktop, but COM in Windows has a ton of warts all of its own. DCOM is brutally complicated to set up and operate properly. COM uses poorly-specified and difficult to parse TLB files. The IDL tool used to be brutally buggy and crashy. Don't get my started on the way that proxies worked.
Many of the critiques in this article could probably be applied to COM in many places. I imagine they might have ironed out some of the kinks, but it's got 10+ years on DBUS.
When COM was as old as DBUS is now, good luck finding the documentation for the more advanced uses outside of the books written by the third-party COM experts.
Many of the critiques in this article could probably be applied to COM in many places. I imagine they might have ironed out some of the kinks, but it's got 10+ years on DBUS.
When COM was as old as DBUS is now, good luck finding the documentation for the more advanced uses outside of the books written by the third-party COM experts.