Re: GEP 5: New Object Adaptor for ORBit2

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Mark,

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 00:00, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 	The discussion period for this is nearly over so I was just
> looking over some of the mails ....

	I was fairly convinced that the consensus was that it wasn't worth
doing, so I wasn't looking at the code any more :-)

> 	Well ultimately this GEP isn't about adding support for this
> to Bonobo - I added the requirement that it should be straightforward
> to integrate this adaptor into Bonobo. I think that's a sensible
> requirement. Whether (and when) we actually do integrate it into
> Bonobo is another matter.

	Well - the thing is, that I don't know that it does integrate well
with Bonobo, inasmuch that it provides a rather different model AFAIR.
I'll have to look at it again.

> 	There is no reason why we should not ship this with ORBit2
> just because we're not going to immediately use it in Bonobo ..

	Well - there is a school of thought that says that 2 APIs that do the
same thing differently is better than 1 :-) but therein lies madness
IMHO. I think it'd be excellent to push a lot of what we do in
BonoboObject down into the ORB - but introducing new APIs that we don't
expect people to use, and that we then have to support seems to be folly
to me - especially when it doesn't seem to buy us anything.

	Anyway; I'll have to have another poke - I was cruising quietly towards
rejecting it's addition on the above grounds, if there's actual dissent
I'll look again. It seemed that Havoc said essentially the same thing
on-list AFAIR.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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