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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    [Fwd: A suggestion regarding your KDE Foundation Classes]
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-04-21 23:40:20
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I've been asked to forward this, I've already addressed some of the
points included, but mostly it's directed to the KFC developer.

Rich.

-------- Original Message --------
From: mesnier_p@ociweb.com (Phil Mesnier)
Subject: A suggestion regarding your KDE Foundation Classes
To: rich@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de

First, be careful calling it KFC, as that is already trademarked
in the US ;-)

But seriously, I first appologize for sending you these comments
directly, I am not an experienced KDE based programmer, and have
not come across a mailing list.  

Anyway, the suggestion I would like to offer is that you consider
the ACE programming environment, produced by Dr. Doug Schmidt of
Washington University (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schimdt) as the
basis for the non-gui portions of your kfc.  The advantage this
gives you is that you are not reinventing the wheel, but building
on an existing framework that has grown over about 6 years of
development.  ACE works very well with linux, and comes with a 
rich set of network communication tools that have an abstraction
layer that allows replacement of TCP based comm with FIFOs or
other transport layers.

The other strong feature of ace is that it provides the basis for
an orb, TAO (The ACE ORB), which is one of the most efficient orbs
on the market, free or otherwise.

Finally, ACE & TAO are released as freely available open source
software, see information on the page I mentioned above.  

Again, I am sorry if this comes across as a sales pitch, or if you
have considered and rejected ACE.  However, if you have not 
encountered ACE, please check it out, it may fit well with your
work, freeing you to consentrate on other issues.

--
Phil Mesnier
Sr. Software Engineer,          http://www.ociweb.com
Object Computing, Inc.          +01.314.579.0066

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