Subject: Re: Scripting
From: Mike Meyer (mwm@mired.org)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 01:52:16 CDT
Ash writes:
> Is there any way to make a plugin system instead? Supposing it could be done,
> the plugins could be written in any supported language, and would probably
> solve any cross platform and language issues.
CORBA gives you that, except that "supported language" means any
language for which someone has written a CORBA ORB, without anyone
doing AbiWord development having to deal with that language.
> Support for VB(and activeX) would be great for the windows port, and there are a
> lot of people who already know it. Would there be any way to support it?
I've never gotten the MS distributed object scheme names straightened
out. I've heard of OLE, COM, DCOM and ActiveX. Some of them are simple
renames or versioning of the others, but I'm not sure which. In any
case, CORBA can be gatewayed to DCOM, meaning that you can use VB to
talk to it. For performance reasons, you might want a native DCOM
implementation as well, but that's a different issue.
<mike
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