Varlink API

[notramo]

Varlink is a simple IPC API. This could be used for directly controlling oguri from other applications, without having to invoke ogurictl.
https://varlink.org/

[vilhalmer]

I'll consider this, since I'm aware the oguri IPC protocol leaves something to be desired and I'm not really set on a direction for it. However, it adds quite a bit of code (more than oguri itself) to control the small handful of knobs that oguri has. It also isn't packaged by Arch or anything else I can find, and seems to only be actively in use by podman. This would mean I'd likely have to vendor it.

[vilhalmer]

I've decided against this at least for 1.0. I'll take a look again at some unspecified point in the future and see if anyone else has started using this api.

[vilhalmer]

Reopening this now that systemd has adopted varlink for their json users/groups feature. Unfortunately though they implemented it themselves, so the official lib remains unpackaged.

[vilhalmer]

I'm also still not optimistic about this just yet, podman was the only real user of varlink and they've dropped it in v2.