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diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml index 1e4ac4f5..e1b02f38 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml +++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ <article id="index"> <articleinfo> <title>D-Bus Specification</title> - <releaseinfo>Version 0.11</releaseinfo> - <date>6 February 2005</date> + <releaseinfo>Version 0.12</releaseinfo> + <date>7 November 2006</date> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname>Havoc</firstname> @@ -114,9 +114,20 @@ </itemizedlist> D-Bus is not intended to be a generic IPC system for any possible application, and intentionally omits many features found in other - IPC systems for this reason. D-Bus may turn out to be useful - in unanticipated applications, but future versions of this - spec and the reference implementation probably will not + IPC systems for this reason. + </para> + + <para> + At the same time, the bus daemons offer a number of features not found in + other IPC systems, such as single-owner "bus names" (similar to X + selections), on-demand startup of services, and security policies. + In many ways, these features are the primary motivation for developing + D-Bus; other systems would have sufficed if IPC were the only goal. + </para> + + <para> + D-Bus may turn out to be useful in unanticipated applications, but future + versions of this spec and the reference implementation probably will not incorporate features that interfere with the core use cases. </para> |