Re: Various newbie questions

>> No Corba yet? Oops.
> 
> No. Probably xml-rpc's fault to work well enough so there was no need to
> look at corba :)

Maybe you haven't tried to use GNUe for actual applications yet. >;->

In the scope of a project involving web services in an industrial context
we made the experience that XML transmission causes quite significant
delays as soon as you need to transmit actually significant amounts of
data of an actually significant complexity to an actually significant
number of users. And I wouldn't want to build just yet another hourglass
display application (that's what they call SAP in German -
"SanduhrAnzeigeProgramm") that gets on the users' nerves.

>>> What datatype would you be missing, for example?

*snip*

>> Durations?
> 
> == Time.

Does that handle days, weeks, months, years (including e.g. that damn 29th
of february every 4 years)?

>> Bit Strings? Binaries (n*bytes)? BLOBs (or links to the filesystem)?
> 
> They are definitely missing and somewhere on our TODO list. Main problem
> was the very different way databases handle blobs.

A string holding a system-independent representation of a path to the
filesystem?

>> BTW: If most of the Developers are located in Europe, will some of you be
>> present at the EuroPython?
> 
> Göteborg is quite far away for most of us (Austria, Hungary).

Er, really? ;-) X-(
 
> Depending on where exactly you are from,

Newfiveland. :-)

> it might be interesting for to
> come to the FOSDEM in Bruxelles.

Hmm. I'll see whether I'll manage to get there. Judging from the content on
the WWW site, it seems to be more for "hardcore" system developers, and
that's definitely not what I am (and I don't want to become one ;-). I'm
rather interested in what applications exist and what a user can do with
them maybe with a little bit of scripting in a user-friendly way
(Python!)...

BTW: There doesn't seem to be a list of "exhibitors"...?

Best regards

Wolfgang Keller