Subject: Re: Scripting
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 02:41:58 CDT
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Aaron Lehmann writes:
> > > I'd propose CORBA. The language is *not* imbedded in application. It's
> > You know, I like this idea. I think it's a really productive disucssion
> > when people come up with better solutions than the original posters. I
> > knew about CORBA, but I didn't put two and two together to come up with
> > the idea as a solution.
>
> CORBA could make the Unix desktop an *incredible* environment, if
> enough people used it.
Forgive my scepticism, but GNOME is heavily dependant on CORBA and I don't
see it as being very extensible via external programming
languages...except possibly basic scripting in Gnumeric.
> How'd you like to use AbiWord as the editor
> portion of an IDE?
Not very much. Although it would be rather simple with Gtk/XEmacs and
AbiWord's GTK port.
> Given an IDE that can be configured to look for an
> "editor" CORBA object, and AbiWord with such an object exported, it
> could happen. (For those into the obscure, the SAS C compiler came
> with an IDE that did this kind of thing, though I don't know if anyone
> configured a word processor for the editor part).
If CORBA does embedding, why does GNOME need the bonobo framework?
Aaron Lehmann
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