From kde-devel  Thu Apr 22 08:42:06 1999
From: Bavo De Ridder <bavo () ace ! ulyssis ! student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:42:06 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: [Fwd: A suggestion regarding your KDE Foundation Classes]
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Richard Moore wrote:
>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.

Who is the KDE Foundation Developer ? Is it me ? :-) I developed this library
some time ago. Since then, I haven't touched it much. Probably because nobody
is using it...

Is there any interest in the KFC ?

The KFC currently contains:

- multithreading
- dynamic loading of classes
- concurreny control (mutex, condition, ...)
- OMG-like event system (could be changed to the Qt event model).

Any ideas, suggestions ?


BDR

>
>-------- 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