Who are the current Orbit maintainers, Eliott Lee, Havoc? Maybe they
should speak up (they are surely listening). It would certainly require a
commitment from their part, to accomodate the needs of two projects. 

                  Lotzi 


On Monday 26 March 2001 05:42, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> Well, apart Dirk questions I'd raise two essential (IMHO) aspects:
>
> a) a technical one. Does orbit offer things KDE needs now and ICE can't
> offer? If it doesn't, why risk breaking unknown quantity of things for
the
> future KDE releases?
>
> Granted, the "maintained" label is compelling, but we have to see: a
> readable piece of code, unmaintained, can become maintainable. A not so
> readable piece of code, maintained, can very easily become
unmaintained. At
> least, we saw that there is maintainance interest for ICE around (in our
> very near circles).
>
> b) a logistical one. IMHO, orbit didn't prove viability the way DCOP+ICE
> did (as far as KDE goes, at least). Could we hope on ever having a
> compatible version of orbit shared by KDE and Gnome? What happens when
> redhat releases these with clashes, for example?
>
> On Monday 26 March 2001 08:15, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > with a maintained black box of C-code,  and whenever somebody
complains
> > about DCOP errors we can blame the Gnomes ;-)
>
> I would never dare to accept this, even with a smiley. But I'm a
> melancholic bitch.

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