Re: [g-a-devel] Standardization and Interoperability Statement of Intent

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Aditya:

At the current time, DBUS does not support all the functionality we 
need.  We are looking into the possibility of certifying to a DBUS 
back-end in the future, and it seems fairly likely that this will happen 
at some time in the future.  However for the current time, the CORBA 
backend is the only one which will be ABI certifiable.

The notion of certifying primarily against the IDL is the direction we 
are heading, but because ABI compatibility is still valuable and 
important, there will be a need to certify against one of (possibly 
several) the officially recognized back-ends.

regards,

Bill

Aditya Pandey wrote:

> Hi
>
> This is a welcome statement of intent. But it leaves doubts on what 
> exactly is the roadmap (implementation), as in bonobo is either dead 
> or dying, so what happens to the implementation...is the accessibility 
> code being changed for D-BUS.
>
> In short, I could not find answers to what set of "base" libraries is 
> going to be used, or is it that there would be multiple 
> implementations all conforming to some IDL.
>
> On 9/26/05, *Bill Haneman* <Bill Haneman sun com 
> <mailto:Bill Haneman sun com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone:
>
>     I would like to draw your attention to a statement which the Gnome
>     and KDE Accessibility Projects, and the Free Standards Group's
>     Accessibility Workgroup (FSGA), have prepared regarding
>     the plans and intentions of their projects with respect to
>     interoperability and standardization:
>
>     http://accessibility.freestandards.org/a11yweb/forms/soi.php
>
>     We hope that this statement helps clarify where our projects are
>     going in the future and in particular the degree to which we aim
>     to continue working together to improve accessibility for all of
>     our users.
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Bill
>
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