Re: Problem with getting current POA

[Dick Porter <dick helixcode com>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:00:40AM -0800, Kennard White wrote:
> 
> I beleive that the reason that many of the changes in HEAD are not
> in the current releases is backward compatibility, not stability issues.
> The GNOME project depends on ORBit to build its components, and as a
> matter of policy, they require backward compat for atleast a year at a time.

That's true, and why GNOME uses the 0.5 stable branch.

> At a technical level, the stub/skel code is tightly intertwined with the
> internal ORB APIs and data structures. When I added support for the
> Current interface (as well as many other features found in HEAD), I was
> not able to do them in a backward-compatible way. Also, each feature
> that is added into the ORB core has a performance impact. Since GNOME
> does not need these other features, they are seen as wasteful.

I think that is a bit unfair. The decision to close ORBit HEAD was Elliot's,
and was done afaik because he wants to move all development attention to
ORBit2.

GNOME is the most visible user of ORBit, but not the only one.

> 
> Kennard

- Dick