Re: Python

[James Amundson <amundson fnal gov>]

"Mr James A . H . Skillen" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:13:15 James Amundson wrote:
> > The answer, as far as I can tell, is no. Bonobo appears to be changing
> > quite rapidly at this point. The core Bonobo developers are clearly
> > focused on the problems at hand, not frivolous things like language
> > bindings. Furthermore, the logical choice at this point for a CORBA
> > implementation would be orbit-python. There hasn't been any movement on
> > that front in several months.
> 
> Isn't it possible to use Bonobo entirely using CORBA?

Honestly, I don't know. If you can get something working with Bonobo and
Python, I'd love to know about it. I asked about Bonobo and Python on
this list and was greeted with a deafening silence.

> Are the language
> bindings just convienience wrappers or do they actually contain some logic?
> I've used orbit-python to poke around OAF after reading in it's IOR, but
> that's all I've done so far. I think that Python and Bonobo would work
> really well together, especially for stuff like prototyping, RAD and
> testing interfaces.

I think using Python and Bonobo together is a fine idea. I wish I knew
for certain what it would take to do it.

--Jim Amundson