Re: orbit 1/2 interoperation

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 26Sep2001 06:54PM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm fixing up gconf 1/2 for parallel install and other issues, and it
> seems that ORBit 1 and 2 don't like to talk to each other. Could
> someone who knows ORBit well investigate this and see what's going on?
> It would take me days to figure it out, no doubt.

I have been seeing a lot of problems with ORBit2. It seems very
flaky. It needs some serious testing and debugging, IMO. But I am not
the expert here.
 
> Also: to get gconf1/gconf2 to coexist, I had to strip
> bonobo-activation out of the loop. This means my own equivalent of
> bonobo_activation_orb_get() and oaf_orb_get(). What happens if the
> code in oaf_orb_get() is executed twice? Can two code segments both do
> this?

You will get two different ORBs. I have no idea what, if any, effect
this has, not being an expert in that area of CORBA. It is probably
harmless but wasteful of resources. 

Would there be any problem with using oaf_orb_get or
bonobo_activation_orb_get even if you don't use the oaf/b-a activation
mechanism? That should alleviate any concerns about duplicating the
code, and would avoid the need to fix any bugs that crop up in it in
gconf as well.

Regards,

Maciej