Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: dbus patch

[edgar . soldin]

Richard Scott wrote:
> > I'm not saying one or the other are right -- but it's hard to persuade
> > either camp by using the other camp's arguments :)
> >     
>
> I think the problem that dbus solves is a valid problem and one that needs a 
> solution. Having a
> GUI that details what duplicity is doing is a fantastic idea.
>   

agreed.

> I can think of two areas where dbus may not be the right solution:
>
> ...
> 2) Is there any way to read dbus output in a shell script? I don't have a 
> desktop on my server to
> run a GUI yet I may still want to back it up and monitor what's going on. 
> Without this generic
> communications channel I'd be stuck :-(
>   

This plus size plus dependency are my main concerns. But if glib is not 
necessary, the two last points are obsolete.

> We can then feed this output into a GUI via a dbus-helper after we have 
> formalised the output :-)
>   

This can also be done from an alternative file descriptor, which would 
leave the stdout output short & human readable (may this can be improved 
too :)
.

...ede