Re: new release?

[Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 00:34, Bowie Owens wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi Murray,
> >
> > I still can't seem to connect to widget.
> >    
>
> Are you still waiting for something from the admins? Maybe I can help to
> bug them for you.
Greg Leblanc recently asked for a password which I have supplied. I'll 
give him a bit more time.

> OK I will do that.
Thanks.

> I'm slightly confused about the simplifications. You seem to have
> simplified the output (removing the orbitcpp namespace), probably
> without at all using my hacky simplification that was reverted to the
> branch. Did you achieve the same results, or is there something still do
> for that?
>
>  
The simplifications to the inheritance heirarchies are done. Let me give 
a quick overview of what was and how it is now. There used to be three 
inheritance heirarchies for some interface Y in module X: (I might get 
the old names slightly wrong but you should get the idea.)

X::Y - supposedly common stuff, nested primitive types and a few functions.
orbitcpp::stub::X:::Y - the stub class required by the standard, 
inherits from X::Y
POA_X::Y - the POA class required by the standard, inherits from X::Y.

So the interface/class heirarchy from the IDL is repeated 3 times with 
both the stub and POA classes inheriting from X::Y. Note that the nested 
primitive types and functions in the "common" classes do not need to be 
a part of the POA class. So I broke the inheritance of POA_X::Y from 
X::Y. Having done that there was no longer any need for two heirarchies 
X::Y and orbitcpp::stub::X::Y. So I merged the stub heirarchy down. So 
we now have:

X::Y - the stub class required by the standard.
POA_X::Y - the POA class required by the standard.

This means that X::Y_ptr is now X::Y* which simplified the template 
parameterization of sequences. Along the way I fixed some stuff that 
depended on single inheritance.

Due to the internals of the orbitcpp compiler, for Z.idl, it was easier 
to put the X::Y class in Z-cpp-common.h rather than Z-cpp-stubs.h. So 
you will notice that Z-cpp-stubs.{h,cpp} are pretty much empty now.


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