Re: ORBit2 Naming Service.

[Chris Wareham <chris wareham iosystems co uk>]

Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:50, Chris Wareham wrote:
> 
>>I'll try reenabling it in Makefile.am and see if it still works. If
>>Michael Meeks is reading this, can you shed any light on why the name
>>server was disabled?
> 
> 	We don't use them in Gnome; I'm not convinced they are that usable /
> bug free. Also - for Solaris (Debian etc.) it is necessary to have a man
> page for every installed binary - and we don't have one.
> 

It's a shame that they've fallen by the wayside, but if they're
superfluous for GNOME then that's fair enough. As suggested in one of
your other posts, I'll take a look at the bonobo-activation code and see
if I can make my server act as its own name service.

Chris
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