On 13 Feb 2003 20:24:04 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 16:40, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Why go with something that will continue to be flaky for years to come > > > when there's an /already mature/ technology that is /already part of > > > GNOME/? > > > > Well, the counter argument is that the point was to try to separate > > ourselves from Gnome -- in particular to enable a Qt/KDE UI. Adding > > yet more gnome deps doesn't quite help in that regards. > > > > However, I still think a set of bonobo services would be a good > > thing. Any volunteers? > > Not yet. :) > > I'd like to point out, using CORBA doesn't necessarily tie you to GNOME, > nor does it create a GNOME dependency. If you have a well-designed (or > at very least, standards-compliant) interface, than any other CORBA > application can connect, be it bonobo apps, Visibroker apps, or whatever > (what's the other free implementation?).
OmniORB, MICO, and TAO are the other "big names" in terms of "free software" ORB implementations... > The dependency would be on the CORBA library we used, from the engine > standpoint. The UI dependency would be on whatever CORBA library *it* > used. If they happened to be the same, so much the better. And, can't > IDL be compiled with any IDL compiler? Can't we construct the CORBA > interface such that it will work with whatever is currently installed? > Do I sound like I'm rambling....hmm, too much bier... It's not /quite/ that simple. In the case of ORBit, created for GNOME, there is a UDS-based transport that is used by default that is not (as far as I can tell) compatible with any other ORB. I'm of two minds about this: - On Zaphod's one head, interoperability is important, so this is "bad." - On his other head, UDS doesn't leave network sockets open for outside attackers to, well, attack, and when users probably don't even /know/ that by running GNOME apps, they are potentially creating network vulnerabilities, it's "good" to keep from doing so. -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@cbbrowne.com") http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/nonrdbms.html "Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive spin to this situation." -- Something Awful, 1/11/2001 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
