Project Summary
D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 32 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2002
ending with its most recent commit 6 months ago
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