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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: MICO 2.2.6
From:       David Faure <faure () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-04-29 15:12:33
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On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:55:37PM +0200, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, David Faure wrote:
> > > 
> > > > AFAIK, Torben and Simon managed to compile kde with mico-2.2.6
> > > > Perhaps we should ask them to commit, and all switch to 2.2.6 ?
> > > 
> > > I dont think kdelibs/kdebase is the problem. I made kdelibs compile with
> > > 2.2.6 without much effort (ok, i left out the mediator stuff, because it
> > > uses mico-2.2.3 internals, but a newer version of the code could be
> > > copy/pasted from mico -- and the BOA/POA mediators should be owned by
> > > kded anyway).
> > > 
> > > AFAIK koffice is the real problem. Torben said that koffice  breaks
> > > with anything but mico-2.2.3, and it would take quite some hours of hard
> > > work to fix.
> > 
> > Hm, I have a fully ported kdelibs on my harddisk, and KOffice as well.
> > Everything works fine, except the mediator stuff. Althought I copied it
> > from micod I can't get it work here. This includes embedding in Konqueror
> > and the KOffice Trader.
> > --> Everything works absolutely fine except for the KOffice Trader (and
> > therefore embedding in KOffice) and embedding in Konqy. Another problem
> > was an IDL compiler bug with inout arguments, just like in the KOffice
> > Filter interface, but I fixed it manually and disabled code generation of
> > koffice.* .
> > 
> > So I'd love to switch to new mico, but someone has to fix the mediator
> > stuff to get a functional IMR. Perhaps you (Steffen) are able to do this
> > and include it in your kded on-the-fly? :-)
> > (but then the KOffice Trader seems to need additional fixes as well, I
> > think, but I'm no (KOffice) Trader expert :) ) . Hm, where is Torben?
> 
> Torben told me that we get rid of the trader stuff in the KOffice soon. So
> maybe we should wait until he finished that and switch then to mico 2.2.6
> to avoid fixing something which will be thrown away anyway.

I agree, but the problem is that we rely on Torben for too many things,
and those days it's hard to know what he's doing and when it will be ready.
No offense. This is simply because our master puts too much on his
shoulders :)

Torben, perhaps you could explain to us what is planned as a replacement
for the trader (is it something to be added to kded ?), so that other 
corba-aware developers (like Steffen, Simon, me, and a lot of others) 
can do it (of course with what you started to do
as a starting point, if there is already something on your hdd).

The same about kdesktop : I made libkonq available for it, but can't
integrate it into kdesktop, still vapourware. Is your version useable
already ?


-- 
David FAURE
david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org
http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html 
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