Re: Scripting in Gnome

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Actually, using COM in C++ is a giant pain in the ass.

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 11:30, jamie wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:10, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:38:31PM +0000, jamie wrote:
> 
> > > A nice componentised  OO interface which is truly language independant
> > > and fast - is that too much to ask for?
> > 
> > certainly not.  We'd all like to see something with those
> > properties.  The question at hand is _how_ not _if_.
> 
> Well I come form an windows background and having used COM extensively I
> can say that its fast and effortless to use. Theres no significant
> performance penalty using it and creating COM units is dead easy.  
> 
> So anything MS can do, Linux can do better, right?
> 
> 
> > 
> > > I am hoping D-Bus will come to the rescue...
> > 
> > That seems to answer a completely different set of issues.
> > Why would you want to use it as a transport mechanism ?
> 
> Because its gonna be a system wide feature across all the desktops. I'm
> guessing (hoping) there will be an object framework for it so that
> components can be used in KDE and Gnome. D-bus developers are currently
> asking what's needed so I might let then know...
> 
> 
> jamie.
> 
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