[pyorbit] Re: biopython.org

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Andrew Dalke wrote:
> 
> > We're making bindings to the GNU CORBA system, "ORBit".
> 
> Out of curiosity, will it meet the OMG specs for CORBA
> bindings for Python?  See

Yes, indeed.

> 
>   ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/orbos/99-08-02.pdf
> or
>   http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/python/pymap.htm
> 
> I talked to Martin briefly at the last OMG meeting, and he says
> that it is very close to being accepted as the OMG standard.
> 
> In theory, if everyone (PyORBit, ILU, fnorb, etc.) met the
> standard, then people would be able to pick and chose ORBs as
> appropriate for their task.

That's the plan :-)  Thanks for the info.  I'll let you know when things
progress.



Cheers.
Jeff
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