gEDA-dev: DBUS binding to PCB actions

[DJ Delorie]

> - cygwin [this one I could be convinced otherwise on]

Make it "cygwin or mingw" and you've got my support.  As long as we
have ONE windows platform covered.

> p.p.s.  I'm not trying to come down on you personally, I just want to 
> make sure we find a better way than using non-portable extensions.

A trivial custom socket layer isn't too hard, if you don't mind it
being trivial and custom.  Make it lisp-like: pass char *[], return
status and char *[].

We could have pcb listen on a TCP socket and do a mini-http server,
too.  A trivial web server isn't that many lines of code, if you only
use it as an API and not a generic web server.  It could return only
text/plain or text/xml, for example, or sometimes pcb/board or
pcb/element.