Re: OAFIIDs

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 25 Dec 2000 22:03:08 +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> 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?
> 
for the moment, I have just changed the GNOME part (GNOME::DB), so you can

continue using GDA_.

cheers