Re: [gnome-db]bonobo in libgda

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

Well, it sounds very well to me ;-)

I'm learning things about Bonobo and I like it very much.

Great decision ;-)


Bye


El 16 Jun 2001 02:18:00 +0200, Rodrigo Moya escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> I just had the other day a thought about porting libgda/gnome-db to
> Glib/GTK/GNOME 2.0, and I came up with the idea of using bonobo in
> libgda for that porting.
> 
> That is, bonobo, for GNOME 2.0, is being separated into a UI and a
> non-UI part. The non-UI part includes the basic Bonobo infrastructure
> (Bonobo::Unknown) apart from other interesting stuff, such as
> Bonobo::Stream, Bonobo::Property, etc, and no UI stuff at all, so no
> need for GTK, since it will be using GObject for the object type system.
> 
> The benefits of doing this, as far as I can see so far, would be a
> cleaner implementation of the providers stuff (hiding lots of
> CORBA-related stuff), as well as the integration with the rest of
> Bonobo-based apps without even worrying about it. Also, we'd benefit
> from having well-tested and documented CORBA interfaces that we can
> easily reuse for our specific purpose (Bonobo::Stream to get, from a
> provider, a large binary field, or Bonobo::Listener to get the providers
> inform the clients connected to them (in fact, I was going to implement
> myself a GDA::Listener interface)).
> The integration will essentially mean that lots of bonobo-aware apps
> will be able to talk with our components without knowing about them (and
> of course, not knowing anything about our CORBA interfaces)
> 
> This will mean just adding a new library to the set of dependencies, but
> getting, IMO, great benefits (specially for the integration).
> 
> Of course, this is a *huge* change, since it will mean reorganizing the
> IDL interfaces, their implementations, the libgdaserver lib,... so I'd
> like to throw out the idea to see what people think
> 
> cheers
> --
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> <rodrigo ximian com>
> http://www.gnome-db.org/
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