Re: CORBA interfaces undocumented?

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

>On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 09:32, mathieu lacage wrote:
>> I think the current point of view of the current bonobo maintainer is
>> that the CORBA interfaces are internal APIs and thus should not be 
used
>> by other applications.
>
>	Not true; I'm happy for people to use the CORBA APIs directly 
where
>that makes sense, they are published APIs and as such frozen, stable,
>public etc.

Sounds like we're talking about the activation IDL here.

I still would very much like to see that IDL exposed
publicly since at the moment some clients have to 
do nasty things like exec shell scripts/binaries
in order to do activation queries (that is, if they
can't readily use the C bindings).

-Bill

>	The bonobo-activation IDL is an internal interface, the bonobo
>interfaces are for public consumption - but this doesn't always make
>that much sense. It certainly doesn't make sense to cut and paste the
>same C code all over the place to do eg. some stream writing ops, when
>you can use a single correct fragment in bonobo.
>
>	Regards,
>
>		Michael.
>
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