Re: Shipping Vera with 2.4

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 11:31, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> The problem with using CORBA is that, for simple things like what d-bus
> would be used for, CORBA is overkill, overengineered and heavy.
> 
> Take a look at the amount of code one would need to write to get a
> simple IPC between to sessions of one app, with CORBA and dbus.

	It's very hard to compare a system that exists, and works with one that
does not.

	I'd point you at the code in eg. gnome-terminal/terminal.c that does
the uniqueness stuff - it's a handful of lines, but of course - if you
want to detect errors, do activation etc. you get to write more lines of
code. Either way it's a fraction of the code.

	Of course - we should have bonobo-activation tracking all apps, and
make that a standard feature of GnomeProgram. But of course, that would
be obstructed as soon as it's suggested - too similar to D/BUS.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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