Re: review of the Storage interface

[Jason Stokes <jstok bluedog apana org au>]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> > However, it's not even true that we can make any of these changes
> > without affecting anything else. For instance, Nautilus has a server
> > that implements the Stream interface to use with Bonobo Controls and
> > Embeddables which we use to display content in Nautilus. We'd have to
> > make a lot of changes to that code to support all the things you want,
> > and it would be very difficult to test our changes, since no Bonobo
> > components out there use any of this functionality right now (since it
> > doesn't exist yet).
> 
> We are talking about Storages, not Streams.

I'm new on all this, but doesn't CORBA allow versioning of interfaces
specifically so changes in an interface don't break existing code?