Re: GEP 5: New Object Adaptor for ORBit2

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi,
	The discussion period for this is nearly over so I was just
looking over some of the mails ....

On 6 Sep 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> > 	Yeah, I agree. What I suggest is that a GServant based version
> > of BonoboObject be made available for anyone who wants to use it, but
> > that the rest of bonobo continue to use BonoboObject probably until
> > 3.0 (unless there actually is a way to do the swap compatibly - which
> > I'm still very dubious about - in which case the swap could happen in
> > 2.4).
>
> 	The thing is; I think BonoboObject buys us pretty the majority of what
> the new servant thing does - to the extent that having a new 'standard'
> simply ties our hands and confuses the situation prematurely.
> [ Even though I'm a big fan of the in-proc efficiency / stability wins
> given by single inheritance ].
>
> 	So ... hard to know where to go with this one really.

	Well ultimately this GEP isn't about adding support for this
to Bonobo - I added the requirement that it should be straightforward
to integrate this adaptor into Bonobo. I think that's a sensible
requirement. Whether (and when) we actually do integrate it into
Bonobo is another matter.

	There is no reason why we should not ship this with ORBit2
just because we're not going to immediately use it in Bonobo ..

Good Luck,
Mark.