[Dynamite] wiki back (hurray)

[Guy Slater]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Ian Holmes wrote:

> (long mail, feel free to read at your leisure)
> 
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think we can consider extending IDL to fit our needs - ie,
> > coming up with (a limited number) of templates like sequence<>.
> > 
> > As long as we have well defined ways of mapping things to vanilla
> > (apologies ian)
> 
> no apologies necessary - i am fully aware that there is an army of
> stroustrup fanatics trained in martial arts who would kick my head for
> doing the idlstubs program. (not to mention the java snowboarders)

;)

> > IDL then I think this is better than relying on
> > conventions. (eg, for set<something> and keyvalue<something>).
> > 
> > This is what mozilla has done with their PIDL system (they extended the
> > IDL).
> 
> It sounds great. I think this is where the action is, but I can't find it
> on the web... got a url?

Did you find it.  Is this is the xpidl stuff ?
http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/xpidl/

Guy.
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