Re: bonobo-activation - a plan.

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 31Oct2001 05:22PM (+0000), Bill Haneman wrote:
> 
> Well, parsing the multi-line output of an exec command doesn't seem much
> safer than actually using IDL... but I suppose it can be made to work. 
> I still think that we should (eventually) have a language-independant
> way of doing activation.

Agreed. This is just a tactical, short-term solution to our emergency
need to do activation from Java.
 
> Would it be OK to ask for a command-line option that was a little terser
> and in a guaranteed format, for just such hackery?  

Yes, I didn't realize how icky the current format is. I'll change the
format to something simpler (ideally just the result IOR or an error
string).
 
Regards,

Maciej