Re: [Fresco-devel] Re: ACE

Ah, maybe I understand why your arguments are coming across as being
so nonsensical.  You're still talking about COM (and using "IDL" as in
that context), while we're talking about CORBA (and when we say or
read "IDL", we're always thinking CORBA IDL).  We use CORBA as a
communications protocol, not a "component library" in the traditional
sense.  We use CORBA to talk to other programs[1].  We do _not_ use
CORBA as a "component library", analogous to MS COM or XPCOM or
something, where it's a wrapper around 3rd-party code and such; when
we want to re-use code, we do it the common Unix way, with libraries
with well-defined APIs.  (And honestly, I don't know what the
arguments for using components internally like that are; libraries
seem to work fine for us here on Unix, without DLL hell.)  I think
this is why we're talking past each other so much; your arguments are
all about something we don't even do.

[1] Sometimes those other programs happen to be other parts of the
same program, but that's an implementation detail.

-- Nathaniel

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