Re: [Glade-devel] A library API to Glade3 for other programs.

[Archit Baweja <bighead users sourceforge net>]

Hi

Joaquin Cuenca Abela <e98cuenc yahoo com> writes:

> --- "John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>
> wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 04:30, Archit Baweja wrote:
> > 
> > > There are 2 main ways of exposing the glade3's
> > capabilities
> > > 
> > > 1) Bonobo || IDL interfaces. Lots of Bonobo/CORBA
> > overhead involved. Gives us
> > > the glade3 develops more to do. But we have the
> > advantage of starting "late"
> > > on working this without changing much of the code.
> > With the other option, we
> > > might just have to start changing from the ground
> > up.
> > > 
> > > 2) A simple C library API interface. Not much
> > overhead. And saves the glade3
> > > developers lot of work. Projects wanting to embedd
> > glade3 can encapsulate
> > > it by wrapping glade3 API calls in their own
> > plugin/dock system.
> > > 
> > > During our discussion on #devel-tools on
> > irc.gnome.org, we had sort of went in
> > > favour of option 2. But its the community's call.
> > > 
> > 
> > As a developer of Scaffold I would like to point out
> > that we use Bonobo
> > quite successfully without any noticable slowdowns.
> 
> I don't think that Archit was thinking on slowdowns
> when he said "Lots of Bonobo/CORBA overhead involved".
>  It looks to me as if he was speaking of intelectual
> overhead (but that's up to him to clarify it).

Yes! Intelectual overhead especially since jeroen himself
mentioned he didn't want to deal with IDL stuff :-)

Cheers!
Archit Baweja