Re: Cobra: ILU or Orbit?

[Shawn Leas <sleas ixion honeywell com>]

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Greg S. Hayes wrote:
> 
> > > ORBit works.  We have total control over its implementation (unlike MICO and
> > > ILU).  It's lean (MICO wasn't).  No compelling reason to change.  Not to
> > > mention that if we did switch to ILU, we'd have to throw out all the intensive
> > > work that's gone into ORBit.  Makes no sense to re-evaluate again at this
> > > point.
> 
> There is no attribution for this quote, and I do not see the original
> message in my gnome mail.  I can probably guess who wrote it, though.
> 
> I have to disagree that it makes no sense to re-evaluate.  It may very
> well make no sense to change, but given the significant advantages that
> ILU has (multi-lingual support foremost among them), I think that it
> _does_ make sense to take another look.
> 
> > 	Will we be able to gleen some of the programing language interfaces
> > from ILU (C++, Java, Guile Scheme, Perl, Lisp, Python, etc) or is the
> > ORBit code so drastically different that this would be impossible?
> 
> The big question here is on the licensing.  The ILU license requires
> simple inclusion of their licensing terms, which I believe is compatible
> with the GPL, and so we could use that code.  If anyone has any particular
> insight into this issue, then please speak up.

That sounds like BSD.  If so, it's a no-go.

> FWIW, I think that having perl support for the GNOME object model would
> be an important step.  It would certainly make it easier to communicate
> to people what the object model is and why it is a compelling idea.  I am
> just waiting for when I can fire up a gnumeric server from perl, abuse it
> like a red-headed stepchild, and document my mischeviousness in the FAQ.
> Just for that reason, ILU is very attractive.
> 
> Can someone say authoritatively whether this is an approved topic of
> discussion?

I would say so, but listadmin would more than likely unilateraly decide
that.

-Shawn
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