System XVI Is A New, Modular Service Manager

[TheBlackCat]

They have no reason to ignore it - it implements a simple protocol for intercommunication based on an almost-invisible abstraction of procedure calling. There is no reason to use complex D-Bus, which implements a wholly different model and does not have an IDL permitting direct binding to C, for this purpose.

Right, of course, all those major projects using DBUS clearly have no idea what they are doing. It is completely impossible that DBUS actually provides features they find useful.

[Delgarde]

They have no reason to ignore it - it implements a simple protocol for intercommunication based on an almost-invisible abstraction of procedure calling. There is no reason to use complex D-Bus, which implements a wholly different model and does not have an IDL permitting direct binding to C, for this purpose.

You can argue all you like that there's no reason to ignore TIRPC - but clearly developers disagree with you, because given a choice of TIRPC or "something else", they've pretty much all chosen "something else"; CORBA and D-COP in the early days of the open desktops, standardising on DBUS more recently. Obviously, TIRPC doesn't provide what developers want.