Re: Building and running gIDE

[Ed Snible <esnible acm org>]

Thanks everyone who helped me get gIDE running.  I intend to document my 
steps and put them on a web page with commentary.  I think people coming from 
the Win32 world to Bonobo/OAF will find it interesting.

Searching the web I found tons of stuff about how to program with Bonobo but 
very little about how to sysadmin OAF.

In the Windows world shared libraries (DLLs) are found searching per-user 
$PATH settings, but Linux uses a system-wide configuration file, 
/etc/ld.so.conf, for security reasons (setuid programs that use libraries.)

Conversely, Windows has a single system-wide registry for COM components.  
The components are individually registered by absolute pathname.  Bonobo 
components are found searching the per-user $OAF_INFO_PATH.  
(Bonobo-available images live in the file system and are found the same way.)

My brain resisted the inversion.

-Ed