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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: the MICO/CORBA issue.
From:       Matthias Elter <me () main-echo ! net>
Date:       1999-09-15 9:22:42
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Am Mit, 15 Sep 1999 schrieb Martin Konold:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > And the answer is, I suppose : as usual. shlib is just what will be used
> > by openparts, it doesn't prevent people from using normal CORBA. :)
> 
> Torben had once a VERY slick and FAST version of openparts based on shlibs
> running. Sorry I forgot the technical reasons (except network
> transparency) which led him to the conclusion that it is a bad concept.

Yes, plain shlibs are bad, you loose the IDL interface and it makes distributed
objects impossible. The new solution provides both.

> What about segfaults in a part? I would hate an incorrect openpart of
> minor importance killing the main application. I think a shlib concept
> will also be harde to debug in some cases. 

A buggy component running in a seperate process can easily take down the main
app, too. You can't try/catch every CORBA call.
Yes, debugging shared libs is not easy so we will have to write a good Howto
for this.

Greetings, Matthias

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Matthias Elter
me@kde.org / me@main-echo.net
KDE developer

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