Re: [gnome-love] Writing cross-language interfaces

[Caleb Land <bokonon rochester rr com>]

On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 16:03, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 07:17, Caleb Land wrote:
> > I read of the benefits of writing COM interfaces to libraries (IE
> > allowing Perl users to access the MS XML parser).  I am currently
> > writing a library to interface ebay functions (getting a list of
> > auctions, checking for a user's completed auctions etc), and am
> > beginning to think that it might be beneficial to allow other languages
> > to easily interface with it.  I believe that CORBA would work for this,
> > but I'm wondering if Bonobo contains anything to help standardize these
> > interfaces and or make it easier.
> > 
> yes, Bonobo has a lot stuff that could help you in doing this. It's got
> some standard interfaces, and allows you to easily implement your own
> interfaces.

Excellent!  I'll begin looking into Bonobo for this task  I see that
there are python and perl bindings in the works for bonobo, so,
hopefully, if everything goes right, I would be able to use these
interfaces from Python and Perl.

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Sincerely,
Caleb Land

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