Re: [Fresco-devel] Got it going!

Matthew Brown wrote:
> Thanks to that last bit of advice from Stefan I was able to get it
> going.  It turns out that on my system -- for whatever reason -- I don't
> have a 'bin/server'.  I only have 'berlin'.  I followed the instructions
> to the letter, or so I thought.

I've changed INSTALL to say "$prefix/bin/..." to be clearer. The reason 
that leaving off the path works for you is because you installed it into 
/usr/local/bin/ which is already in $PATH, so you don't need to be so 
verbose.

> At any rate, has this all been tested across a network?  I'd think it
> would be a killer demo to have a demo server setup where a user could
> run a demo from the server, displaying to their machine locally.  Would
> this be of value to you?  When I get my colo back up and stable, I'd be
> happy to throw a machine there to handle this.

It works across a network. Technically speaking, we don't have any 
networking code ourselves, we just rely on the underlying ORB which is 
used primarily for networking applications.

> Of course it will only work well if this is as fast as I'd suspect after
> looking over the architecture.  Imagine being able to host your apps
> remotely and disparately, reaching what you want from wherever you like.

That's the idea! I'd actually been hoping to run my minesweeper demo on 
my machine and serve it to others running Fresco, except that my 
NAT+firewall setup doesn't allow for that. CORBA doesn't work on 
specified ports, instead it expects to be able to talk on (and accept 
connections for) any port at any time.

Nick Lewycky