[ITP 1.7] dbus

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Mon Jun 22 00:24:00 GMT 2009


D-Bus is the fd.o IPC framework, which just about all desktop software 
is using nowadays.  This, and its bindings (ITPs to follow), will be 
required for GNOME 2.26, KDE4, and Xfce4 libraries.

D-Bus defines two separate buses, a system bus and a session bus.  The 
system bus is installable as a Windows service via csih (thanks Chuck!), 
although most software that uses the system bus (e.g. HAL, DeviceKit, 
PolicyKit, etc.) is mostly Linux-specific.  The session bus is started 
with dbus-launch, or it will be launched automatically by apps/xsessions 
which need it.

ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/dbus/dbus-1.2.14-1-src.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/dbus/dbus-1.2.14-1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/dbus/setup.hint
ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/dbus/libdbus1-devel/libdbus1-devel-1.2.14-1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/dbus/libdbus1-devel/setup.hint
ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/dbus/libdbus1_3/libdbus1_3-1.2.14-1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/dbus/libdbus1_3/setup.hint


Yaakov



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