Re: [G2R] Merging ORBit-c++ into ORBit2 ...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 10Dec2001 10:09AM (-0500), Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> Hi Sam / guys,
> 
>         I just looked over orbitcpp, and it looks great for inclusion into
> ORBit2.
> 
>         However I'm slightly concerned about the C++ being used in the IDL
> compiler; I would prefer this to be migrated to plain C, and always linked
> into the idl compiler - rather than having a conditional C++ build [
> although we will need this anyway for building the core ].
> 
>         Also it's worth asking the release team about this;
> 
>         Are you guys happy to add C++ support to the ORB ? this is a
> highly peripheral feature; it should involve precicely no changes to the
> existing C ORB, since the C++ code is merely wrappers around it.
> 
>         There will be some new C++ code that we'll need to install in
> various places - but no particularly new standards or APIs - beyond that
> of complying with the C++ CORBA binding spec.
> 
>         What do you think ? otherwise I'll import it into CVS and have a
> go at hooking up the autoconf gubbins - that is if Sam / Murray are happy
> to do the work on making it fly ?

I think it's pretty late in the game to make this big an
addition. I would think of this as post-2.0 material.

 - Maciej