Option to build without dbus?

[adamierymenko]

This could be generally useful on other platforms and should have an option to build without dbus and be reached via a local JSON API or something similar.

[manuels]

Sure, I was already thinking about something but I did not know what mechanism to use. Maybe a Unix domain socket?

[Ryman]

Maybe this is naive in some way, but this has caused me trouble when trying to build your wireguard-p2p project, would it not be possible to build this as just a library?

[adamierymenko]

I think just a library with a simple API would be extremely useful, and would make this something useful in other projects too.

[manuels]

You guys are right. Right now I have reimplemented bulletinboard using tokio, but the release of a new version of tokio is imminent, so I am waiting for this until I release a new version of bulletinboard.

[adamierymenko]

I think a library API would be better than a domain socket, since there's no such thing on Windows and I'm not sure if they are accessible on mobile devices.

[rigelk]

Same thing as above. I'd be glad to help refactor to provide a library-based API.

[manuels]

Sure, @rigelk, feel free to create a pull request. This project is not getting a lot of love right now from me, because I am waiting for futures to become stable and rebuild bulletinboard using futures.
But it would be great if we iterate on the API already!