Re: ORBit2 idl-compiler headers not installed

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 05:37, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2001, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > I've found some messages in the archive with unhelpful text such as
> > "apparently it isn't used' and 'I'm not even sure if idl compiler
> > backends are working.'
> 
>         Fair comments in fact :-) I think we stripped the 'backend'
> capability in it's shlib form from orbit-idl in the last revision.

I'm just seeing What you've done, without the Why.

> > If it really shouldn't be installed, can someone explain why, and
> > suggest alternatives? Bear in mind that I have very little idea how
> > ORBit and/or its backends work, but I'm willing to learn.
> 
>         I'd be most interested to see the ORBitC++ code that you have,

I've just fixed the build files so far, by patching the existing
ORBitC++ 0.30.2 dist.

> and
> I'm sure Mark and I would be happy to help port it to ORBit2 

That's a welcome offer.

> - if it's
> merely a matter of an IDL compiler backend - that's something we could
> trivialy fold back into ORBit2 itself in fact - since it would add no new
> dependencies.

-- 
Murray Cumming
murrayc@usa.net
www.murrayc.com