Re: OAFIIDs

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome-db org>]

El 18 Dec 2000 21:30:37 +0100, Rodrigo Moya escribió:
> Hi all!
> 
> I forgot to tell you that I've changed all the OAFIIDs (CORBA object
> implementation identifiers) both in libgda and gnome-db. Also, I've
> changed the names of the .oafinfo files.
> 
> This has been done to conform with the new GNOME/OAF namespace. That is,
> the OAFIIDs are now of the form:
> 
> OAFIID:GNOME_[AppName]_[ObjectName]
> 
> note that they all have to be included in the GNOME namespace, since
> this has been decided in gnome-components-list
> (http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-components-list) with the
> wide use GNOME is getting lately in mind. Also, note that the [horrible]
> UUIDs (the big number at the end of the OAFIIDs) have disappeared, which
> is, IMO, a very good thing, since now the OAFIIDs are human readable and
> not a big-chunk-of-words-and-numbers-that-nobody-can-read. Also having
> OAFIIDs using a clear namespace as this one makes it easier for
> programmers.
> 
> Also, oafinfo files must follow this rules, and now are not called
> anymore gda-*.oafinfo, or gnomedb-*.oafinfo, but:
> 
> GNOME_GDA_Provider_MySQL.oafinfo
> GNOME_GDA_Provider_Postgres.oafinfo
> GNOME_DB_Manager.oafinfo
> ...
> 
> The GNOME_DB_ and GNOME_GDA_ subnamespaces have been reserved for
> GNOME-DB (see in  bonobo/doc/NAMESPACE, in the Bonobo sources), so we
> can create any subsubnamespace as we like.
> 


Then, we must code all the CORBA methods as GNOME_GDA_*? or could we use
the traditional GDA_* names?

> All this means that before running a GNOME-DB/libGDA version from CVS,
> you must remove the $prefix/share/oaf/gda-*.oafinfo and
> $prefix/share/oaf/gnomedb-*.oafinfo. Also, you'll have, through the
> GNOME-DB manager component, to change all your "Provider" entries in all
> your data sources to the new providers' OAFIIDs
> 
> cheers
> 
> 
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