On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:21 +0200, Mark Hoebeke wrote: > we have been using CORBA::ORBit successfully for several years now. Most > recently, we migrated our application servers to 64 bit machines. > Unfortunately this broke CORBA::ORBit, both the official CPAN version, > and the one extracted from the gnome cvs servers. > > Before diving into the code, I checked with the original author of the > module (Owen Taylor) who confirmed me he did not maintain the module > anymore (which I suspected after reading the latest posts on this > mailing list). > > Today, I apparently solved the main issues by tweaking (hacking ?) the > marshalling/unmarshalling code: our CORBA apps seem to run smoothly again. > > Some organizational issues remain however, which I list here in no > specific order : > - who is the official maintainer of the module (if there still is one) ? > - would anybody be intersted in the patches I made ? > - if so how do I commit my changes into the repository ? > - are there still people using this module ? > - should I switch to pyorbit ? > (OK, this one's to check if you've not fallen asleep :D) > > Any comments welcomed ! If you want to take over maintainership I can get you a CVS account - just mail accounts gnome org with the information from: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/policies/accounts/cvs.html And mention my name. (They'll ping me to confirm) I'm not sure about CPAN ... I might still be a maintainer of the module and could help transfer ownership, or you might have to track down Roger Huw. (very vague The obvious caution is that CORBA::ORBit is based on ORBit1 which is also not maintained. Regards, Owen
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