[LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

[Krzysztof Foltman]

Bob Ham wrote:

> Of course it needs to handle it.  It needs to cleanly shut down due to
> the catastrophic failure.

You'd want that during live performance? :)

In a debug version, it could be desirable, but for "production" use 
(sorry for webspeak) it is unacceptable. It should be as fault-tolerant 
as possible in those situations.

Perhaps it should be handled via a configuration option (live 
performance mode checkbox).

> I think it's important *to* break the current API due to its many
> issues.  Why do you think that backwards compatibility with the current
> API is important?  

LASH adoption was slow enough to start with. Several projects exist that 
use current LASH, some are quite useful (Hydrogen, Specimen), do you 
want to personally update each and every of those (including the 
abandoned ones) and make the updates into each distribution? It just 
won't work. Be realistic.

Krzysztof