Re: Icons of program
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>
- To: Jim Pick <jim jimpick com>
- Cc: raster redhat com, bacon mediaone net, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Icons of program
- Date: 26 Apr 1998 00:04:06 -0600
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:
Jim> The only thing CORBA buys you vs. a shared library is the ability
Jim> for your method to be called from more languages without having
Jim> to hack individual bindings.
I think that's an important gain. We seem to have problems keeping
the other language bindings for Gtk/Gnome up to date. E.g., the Guile
binding is known to have many problems.
There's actually other gains from CORBA as well:
* Network transparency
* Can be implemented anywhere (shared libs are more universal
than they used to be, though)
* I find that the process of writing the IDL helps me to focus on the
interface per se; when writing something as a shared lib I often end
up with something very implementation-dependent (meaning that
replacing it with a different implementation would be hard).
You might think that this gain is illusory, but I think in practice
it probably isn't.
I do agree that our current ORB options are pretty bad.
Tom
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