[omniORB] Perl

[Philippe.Merle@lifl.fr]

Hello,

> Subject: Re: [omniORB] Perl 
> From: Duncan Grisby <dgrisby@uk.research.att.com>
> 
> On Thursday 30 September, "Mark D. Landry" wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason omniORB developers are choosing to do a Python
> > binding instead of Perl? There's a heck of a lot more going on in
> > Perl (more users, more published books, more integration w/Apache,
> > ...)
> 
> We started developing omniORB because we had a need for it within our
> lab. The same goes for the Python bindings -- lots of projects here
> are using Python, and have a need for a CORBA binding. We have nothing
> in particular against Perl, but I personally think that Python fits
> the sort of things you want to do with CORBA far better than Perl
> does.
> 
> The beauty of CORBA is that you can interoperate between ORBs, so it
> shouldn't be a problem that omniORB doesn't support the language you
> prefer.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Duncan.
> 
> -- 
>  -- Duncan Grisby  \  Research Engineer  --
>   -- AT&T Laboratories Cambridge          --
>    -- http://www.uk.research.att.com/~dpg1 --
> 

Just for information, I want to signal to omniORB users that
the CorbaScript language has been successfully ported on top of
omniORB 2.8.0 on Solaris.

CorbaScript is the first free implementation of the OMG IDL Script
specification which was adopted at the last OMG meeting.

For the OMG IDL Script specification, have a look at:
  http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?orbos/99-07-17

For CorbaScript information, have a look at:
  http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/CorbaScript/

For the lastest CorbaScript snapshot, have a lot at:
  http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/~merle/PRIVATE/CorbaScript-1.3.2.tar.gz
  http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/~merle/PRIVATE/CHANGES

This lastest snapshot works on top of MICO 2.3.0, OAK 5.2.9, omniORB 2.8.0,
ORBacus 3.2, VisiBroker 3.3 and experimentally on patched TAO.
This release will be officially announced in some weeks, 
but you can already test it and report any success/problem.

A+
Philippe Merle
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