On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Michael Robinson wrote:
< a very well written description removed >
> Which ORB?
>
> GNOME started with Mico. Mico, apparently, makes use of C++ templates,
> which caused the compiler they were using to generate bloated, wallowing
> code.
Is that still accurate today?
> GNOME then adopted ORBit, which has two wins: it's in C, and (this is
> the biggy) it has provisions to shortcut parameter marshalling,
So...implement an OO 'environment' with a non-OO language? :)
My experience is that for pretty much every pro, there is a
con...what are we losing with ORBit that we'd have with mico? Short
and/or long term? mico is reputed to be Corba 2.2 compliant..orbit?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org