[Dynamite] hacking orbit-idl

[Guy Slater]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Ian Holmes wrote:
> 
> hmmmm, I think you were probably right when you said it was not worth the
> effort -- but OK!
> 
> -- 
> Ian Holmes  ....  Howard Hughes Medical Institute  ....  ihh@fruitfly.org
> 
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'll see how easy it is to hack orbit-idl to give
> > us what we want (and IDL->header compiler)
> > 
> > 
> > e.
> >

Has anything been decided on this ?
Writing in a language for which we have
no suitable compiler means trouble.

Options include:

  a) Use orbit-idl, taking all the CORBA stuff it throws at you.
     Would this force people to have orbit
     installed to compile telegraph? (bad) 
  b) Hack orbit-idl as suggested.
  c) Write headers manually.
  d) Postprocess (either manually or automatically) the orbit-idl
     generated headers to strip off all the stuff we don't want.
  e) A better solution.

I'd favour (e), but have been unable to find it on the web
(I would have thought quite a lot of people would have wanted to use
 idl without the CORBA stuff)

Any suggestions?

Guy.
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