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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: the MICO/CORBA issue.
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-09-18 15:56:43
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On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 01:54:08AM +1000, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> 
> >  a) create smart stub/skeleton code (optimised for the qt/kde framework!)
> >  b) use qtl where possible
> >  c) have qt/kde bindings. this would have the outrageous advantage that
> >     programming with CORBA becomes *much* easier, as developers won't have
> >     to deal with the MICO/CORBA types (sequence, CORBA::WChar*, etc.) but
> >     can stay with the existing ones.
> 
> Hmm.. now that ORBit has some form of C++ binding is there any chance of
> using that in any way, rather than rewriting large parts of an ORB?

That wouldn't help us in any way : using an ORB instead of another
still means using STL or implementation-specific collections, instead
of the ones we have already in memory : QTL.

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