Re: Shipping Vera with 2.4

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 10:58, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 05:38, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > As a tangent, IMO many of our current end-user-impacting issues are
> > going to require working outside of GNOME in order to address
> > them. There are many issues about hardware, system configuration,
> 
> 	Will many of these issues *require* not working with other vendors? cf.
> the ximian-setup-tools - "pinch the icons and pointlessly re-write it in
> based on an inferior model" job.
> 
> 	What is it about eg. GUI system tools, that require working outside of
> Gnome ? yes - it's given that setup tools are system specific, and
> vendor/version dependent - but sharing core code inside a sensible and
> flexible structure can never be a bad thing - surely ?
> 
> 	As for making GNOME into an entire operating system - there's a straw
> man if ever one saw one. Simply looking for sensible areas of
> re-applicability for various technologies is great: glib has a use
> outside GNOME - so does gtk+, so does ORBit2.
> 
> 	How does eg. having standardized GUI tools across distributions with a
> sane structure make GNOME an "operating system" ?
> 
> 	One of the things that amazes me about D/BUS is that - having been
> patronizingly lectured extensively in the past about how "a string is an
> API" - it seems that D/BUS is essentially a "send a string" transport.
> Is there really no formal contract specification language ? and/or
> suggestions for and/or descriptions of such ? I couldn't find such a
> thing in the documentation. You're going to need IDL - hey, you could
> even compile that IDL to some typesafe stubs / skels !

The problem with using CORBA is that, for simple things like what d-bus
would be used for, CORBA is overkill, overengineered and heavy.

Take a look at the amount of code one would need to write to get a
simple IPC between to sessions of one app, with CORBA and dbus.

Cheers

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/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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