Re: [guppi-list] New Guppi Snapshot

[linas linas org]

It's been rumoured that Neil J Pilgrim said:
> 
> I suppose the absence of an up-to-date and working GTK-- version didn't
> help with developing guppi in C++ too.
> 
> One thing I was wondering was whether it is possible to use some too
> like doc++ to generate documentation from the code; the use of OO in C
> doesn't strike me as easy to parse in this way however.

Out of idle curiosity: why doesn't anybody ever mention using corba
IDL's to define the programming interfaces?  Is it because CORBA is 
too messy?  To hard to set up?  auto-generates ugly C++ bindings?
To hard to understand? too hard to use?  Lacks IDL-to-scheme stub
generator?  'stubs are evil'? 

I'm wondering because corba was envisioned to be this nice
cross-language thingy, and it never really filled that promise, 
and I'm trying to figure out if it should be fixed, or abandoned, or if
its best left onn the sidelines, as it is today.

--linas