Re: Bonobo dependencies ...

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ulises openresources com>]

> > > That is exactly the vision.  Read the document above ;-)
> > > > I like it very much, I think it's a very good idea.
> > > But, I haven't found anything CORBA/Bonobo-related in
> > the helix-setup-tools sources. Is there anything already done about
> > this?
>
> No, this is a work in progress.
> 
> Currently Arturo and Hans are working towards completeness: supporting
> the various subsystems correctly and supporting the various operating
> systems correctly.
>
> The next step is to add the CORBA interfaces (which is easily done if
> you read the description of how internally the tools load/dump,
> load/restore state, it is just a step in the middle).
>
> The issue was that Owen's CORBA bindings had not been updated to cover
> OAF, wo we did not want to do much about them right away, and we would
> export those later.  
>
> Paolo Molnaro (of Gtk/Perl and GNOME/Perl fame) has just joined Helix
> Code to develop the Perl Bonobo bindings, and to help with our
> CORBA-based scripting strategy.  Once he is further down the road, we
> will be adding the CORBA hooks into every HST. 
>
Bonobo-perl? wow, that's a very nice thing to have!!

I am very interested in this, so I'll try to follow the development to
give a hand as soon as I've got time.

cheers