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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: CORBA on kde-core-devel
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-09-17 16:27:46
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On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Bavo De Ridder wrote:

> component would really be interesting ? IMHO, distributed programming
> without any form of network wide security and authentication system is
> plain stupid. And since Linux/KDE/CORBA doesn't have such a system.

Within NIS/AFS based clusters authentification can securily be handled via
public key systems (aka ssh). But the main reason to keep corba is IMHO
that otherwise we will have _enourmeous_ problems to get KDE-2.0 as stable
as people expect from KDE. 

The main problem is that the developers/testers have NO chance to
debug/test all possible combinations of code due to the fact that the
developer has no possibility to know which shlibs will get linked at
runtime. Another thing is binary compatibility. A component compiled on a
different computer is able to kill annother application. This leads to
strange effects. Applications start to segfault because some other nifty
but incompatible component apeared in system....

Yours,
 -- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
KDE:  A stable GUI for a reliable OS.

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