From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch? Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:33:52 +0900 Message-ID: <87y6q89n8f.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <1656D853-4154-4AAA-B6FE-8ADADA8647EF@gmail.com> <20090728.132511.262626447.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <871vo0b4jx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248838688 29808 80.91.229.12 (29 Jul 2009 03:38:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 29 05:38:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MVzzM-0001x0-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:38:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVzzM-0005Jg-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MVzzH-0005JG-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MVzzC-0005J4-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58215 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVzzC-0005J1-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:42863) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MVzzB-0008Im-JV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06A28210; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:37:47 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1A3031A3874; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:33:53 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 5bbff3553494 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113323 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull= wrote: > > Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > > > > =A0> I am not sure how this functionality can be replaced by DBUS, > > > > The point is not that AppleScript functionality can be replaced by > > dbus on Mac OS X, it is that dbus provides roughly analogous > > functionality on free platforms. >=20 > Does this mean that dbus does not work on Mac OS X? Why? No and yes. As Harald points out, installing dbus on Mac OS X is not particularly difficult. However, using dbus on Mac OS is like speaking English in Tokyo. Your conversation partners are very limited, mostly to foreigners.