2003-03-18 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>

	* doc/TODO: some notes on high-level todo items. Little nitpick
	stuff is all in @todo, so no need to add it here.

	* doc/config-file.txt: some notes on how config file might look

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+ - Service and message names should be more carefully restricted;
+   they should have a max length, may not be an empty string, 
+   and perhaps should not be allowed to be a glob such as "*" since
+   the config file could conveniently use such notation. 
+
+   Suggest requiring length > 0, length < max, 
+   name contains at least one ".", no initial ".", and valid UTF-8. 
+   That would prohibit plain "*" but not "foo.bar.baz.operator*"
+
+   For maximum convenience from all programming languages, we could go
+   further and just categorically ban nearly all non-alphanumeric
+   characters.
+
+ - Message matching rules (so broadcasts can be filtered) need sorting
+   out.
+
+ - How we will handle DCOP needs sorting out. Among other things, we
+   need to check that service and service-ownership semantics map to DCOP 
+   reasonably well.
+
+ - Activation needs some careful additional thinking-through.
+
+ - Recursive/composite/etc. types and associated API, see mailing list.
+
+ - dbus-bus.h should contain convenience API for connecting to system 
+   and login-session message buses (automatically handling env
+   variables etc.)
+
+ - Configuration file (working on that now)
+
+ - Property list feature on message bus (list of properties associated 
+   with a connection). May also include message matching rules 
+   that involve the properties of the source or destination
+   connection.
+
+ - Implement all the needed resource limits to keep clients from
+   killing the message bus.
+
+
+