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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Application Server, take two
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-06-17 8:36:58
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Gabor Szentivanyi wrote:
> > KDE can provide you with a mailinglist to support your development, possibly
> > some space on one of our web-sites and maybe a module in the CVS repository.
> 
> Actually that's what I meant by "commitment", and not all people
> sacrificing their time and energy for the idea without knowing anything
> about implementation plans and results. Thanks for interpreting my ideas
> in the right way.
> 
> However, if we, few people, try to make something working,
> we'd need a relatively stable KOffice snapshot with stable IDLs. 

We hope to have a KDE release for developers out somewhere this summer.
(The famous 1.89 release) This should include KOffice.

> I just read on the list that avoiding Mico "bloatware" is done by hand 
> tuning kom.cc. 

To my knowledge kom.hh/kom.cc are just autogenerated by the make process....
(At least it did after I deleted them :)

> This circumstances would make seamless interoperation pretty
> difficult if not impossible. When are a relatively stable set of IDLs and
> language mappings to be expected?

I am sure the koffice people can comment better on this (Hi Reggie!) but
for what's worth:

* The IDL's are relatively stable, they might change over time a bit but
not drammatically.

* The language mapping is currently under discussion as it seems that we
can reduce a lot of the bloat by making a KDE/Qt/C++ mapping which fits 
much more nicely to KDE than the current C++ mapping. 

Cheers,
Waldo
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