Re: Scripting idea

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

Johan> The GNOME equivalent of the port mechanism, is CORBA, even
Johan> though CORBA is much more advanced.

Johan> I hereby suggest that the GNOME project should include:
Johan>  * standardized CORBA IDLs for securelly controlling applications from
Johan>    scripts and other applications, and:
Johan>  * script-interface bindings to CORBA from popular scripting languages
Johan>    like Perl and Tcl.

Johan> What do you think?
Johan> Is a mechanims like this already planned?

Yes, this is planned.  It has been discussed many times.

Now that ORBit is "finished enough" people are starting to implement
this.  For instance, the help browser now has a CORBA interface.
You'll be seeing more and more of this.

Tom