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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: CORBA on kde-core-devel
From:       Matthias Elter <me () main-echo ! net>
Date:       1999-09-17 16:28:53
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Am Fre, 17 Sep 1999 schrieb Martin Konold:
> 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....

As I mentioned several times now, the current solution is as "stable"
as a shlib solution would be. A buggy CORBA component running in a
seperate process will most likely kill the main app.

--
Matthias Elter
me@kde.org / me@main-echo.net
KDE developer

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