Re: Advice requested on deprecating AT-SPI/CORBA

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> > Due to others hardcoding the string "atk-bridge" in their code (e.g.,
> > Firefox and OOo), the GTK+ a11y module has to be named "atk-bridge".  We
> > could ask Firefox and OOo to not hardcode the name, but we'd end up in a
> > versioning hell with external apps not tied to the GNOME release schedule.
> >  So, I'd like to make the simplifying assumption that they will not change
> > and we need to deal with "atk-bridge".
>
> Can we force them to not hardcode it and yet preserve atk-bridge so
> that we can change it in the future if needed? a pkg-config variable
> would solve this I'd say.

We can certainly ask them to change.  The problem is that the Firefox 
and OOo release schedules are completely de-coupled from GNOME's.  As a 
result, by requiring them to change for AT-SPI/D-Bus to succeed, we have 
introduced another dependency that is another point of failure and delay.

Will