Re: GNOME & KOM/OP

[Chris Knight <cknite danville net>]

Interesting...

It'd really help programmers that have to use libraries from types like Raster :-)

What kind of speed hit are we talking about though? Is there any difference
between calling directly to a library and using GOM instead?

Chris

Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Chris Knight wrote:
>
> > Am I correct in assuming that this really has nothing to do with COM. I mean,
> > I can write libraries that don't require recompiling without COM. Does using COM
> > prevent me from changing internal structure sizes?
>
> No, it makes changes to internal structures invisible to external
> programs, since The Interface is Everything.
>
> And, yes, raster could release minor version number changes to imlib
> which do not require a recompile; he just doesn't.  In a brave new
> COM-like world, he'd have to, assuming that everyone used the GOM to
> access imlib, which of course they won't.  I just like the idea of
> forcing the discipline on facilities programmers (library programmers
> is not really the term for it any more); if they don't implement the
> same interface in the new version of their (library, CORBA facility,
> whatever), then they just don't get registered as offering the old
> facility, and so you either use something else or your apps won't run.
> It makes the issue very clear-cut, which it is not today, and it makes
> the responsibilities of facilities programmers mandatory, which they
> definitely are not today.
>
> --
> Todd Graham Lewis                                     (800) 719-4664, x2804
> ******Linux******         MindSpring Enterprises      tlewis@mindspring.net