Re: ORBit2 idl-compiler headers not installed

[Michael Meeks <michael peabody ximian com>]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Sam Couter wrote:
> Michael Meeks <michael@peabody.ximian.com> wrote:
> >         Fair comments in fact :-) I think we stripped the 'backend'
> > capability in it's shlib form from orbit-idl in the last revision.
>
> Erm... That could be bad. Why was that done?

	I think because the framework was overly complicated and
substantialy unused :-) it'd be best to fold the C++ work into ORBit2
anyway IMHO - is it your project Sam ?

> The ORBit-C++ compiler backend is written in C++, so it would at least
> introduce the dependency on a C++ compiler and runtime.

	There's no real need for that in the idl compiler; I'm sure it can
be ported to C with relative ease. Are you interested in doing that ? or
do you have a URL for the latest source to hand (I'm being lazy).

> The current version of ORBit-C++ also provides a C++ mapping of the
> CORBA spec, so there is a library to provide the POA, some operations
> on Anys, sequences and so on, as well as a CosNaming library.

	The good news is that we can (most probably) auto-generate a good
deal of that, since much of the ORB interface is now defined via PIDL -
which we could just compile with the C++ IDL compiler to produce nice
headers for the whole thing - how does that sound ?

	Regards,

		Michael.

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