Re: commit: Generic Embedded run infrastructure.

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Jean [ISO-8859-1] Bréfort wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:13:55 +0100
> From: "Jean [ISO-8859-1] Bréfort" <jean.brefort@normalesup.org>
> To: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> Cc: AbiWord Developers <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: commit: Generic Embedded run infrastructure.
>
>
> Le samedi 19 mars 2005 à 17:31 -0500, Hubert Figuiere a écrit :
> > Jean Bréfort wrote:
> > >
> > > AFAIK, Bonobo will be soon deprecated, so we should not waste time with
> > > that.
> >
> > What will it be replaced with ?
> >
> >
> > Hub
> >
>
> This is the good question. I don't know even if it will be replaced.
> I'll post a message on gnome-component-list, but if anybody knows...

I'm pretty sure parts of it will surive out of necessity. Much of it will
get pushed down into GTK where it belongs and developers will be
encouraged to take other approaches.

Object level interaction is overkill, standard file formats, standard
shared libraries and all the other approaches you can see in abiword
provide viable alternatives for most cases. Open Source software can
afford and manage lower level cooperation much more easily than
proprietary development which seems to feel the need for a much higher
abstraction layer. (Jody Goldberg has always had insighful comments on
the subject, far beter than any points I could offer.)

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Received on Sun Mar 20 15:45:26 2005