Using bonobo objects

[Juan Toledo <toledo users sourceforge net>]

Hi, there.

Etherape is gathering enough statistics data now that it would be very useful to present it graphically. I guess the proper (easiest?) way to do that would be to use bonobo objects.

I've see gnumeric screenshots that showed charts done using those objects. My questions:

Are the components that implement those charts part of gnumeric or do they have their own package?

Is bonobo stable enough that it is worth programming for? In many places gnumeric is referenced as a "test bed" as if it were not production code yet.

Is there any simple program out there that I can use to copy optional corba-gnome features in configure.in?

Thanks in advance.
(I guess I could have answered many of these questions myself by downloading the source for gnumeric, but I'm a poor developer and I barely have any room left in my HD)

Regards,
Juan.