CORBADEV: Re: [Biocorba-l] report on Anys in CORBA::ORBit

[Alan Robinson]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ewan Birney wrote:

> It seems insane to me to have a IDL spec which Perl can't use given the
> use of Bioperl in bioinformatics.

Agreed. Which is why Martin is currently investigating all the
combinations of ORBit and MICO perl and ORBacus Java clients & servers
with any's in interfaces, structs and sequences. It then needs to be
determined if any incompatibilities experienced are due to (fixable) bugs
or unimplemented features.


Alan.

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