Re: GNU Enterprise

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

Chris Wiegand wrote:
> 
> At 03:51 PM 7/8/00, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >Christopher Wiegand wrote:
> > > When this happens, what at that point will still be Gnome-dependant, other
> > > than the graphical widgets?
> > >
> >Apart from the widgets, all the bonobo part will be GNOME-dependant (of
> >course, until bonobo is somewhat ported to other toolkits). And,
> >although the bonobo part is quite small today, it will be extended
> >everywhere, since we must make gnome-db fully compatible with all the
> >gnome-office applications.
> 
> Between oaf, bonobo, and orbit, I keep getting confused. I know what ORBit
> does, basically, it's a CORBA implementation (that's similar vaguely to
> DCOM/COM, right?) So what does oaf or bonobo do, then? 
> 
ORBit is the CORBA implementation
OAF is the system for activating the CORBA objects (the CORBA DNS)
Bonobo is the component system (like ActiveX)

> And if Gnu
> Enterprise is going to depend on our db-api, and they need it be portable
> to non-Gnome environments, how are we going to do that (or is there a
> project to port bonobo to non-GTK environments)?
>
Well, the UI part should be ported to other toolkits, and as soon as
there is a Bonobo implementation somewhere (there were talks about this
for KDE/KParts), we can port the bonobo part as well.