[pyorbit] other binding project

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Okay.  I'll start sending out the announcements.


Cheers.
Jeff


Justin Bradford wrote:
> 
> > > I'm going to clean up Michael's code slightly, and then put it up tomorrow
> > > (Thursday) after my lab.
> >
> > Okay.  Great.
> 
> Ok, I've fleshed out the webpage, put up a tarball (which _might_ compile
> for a few other people), and stuck everything in CVS. I think we're ready
> to go...
> 
> > Does it matter to you if the letter case is pyORBit or PyORBit?
> 
> PyORBit is fine. For some reason, I had thought you suggested the other
> way.
> 
> > Are you going to give it a release number?  Does it already have one?  PyORBit
> > 0.1.0 ?
> 
> I have it as 0.0.1. My plan is for 0.1.0 to be when the tree is cleaned up
> properly (ie. source arranged better, autoconf/automake, etc).
> 
> > Swell.  It seems we're months ahead of my expectations for a CORBA interface.
> 
> Well, the current code is rough. It took me a couple hours to finally get
> enough to compile to let me run some test scripts. Then, when I tried it
> on another box of mine, some of the compiles bombed out...
> 
> But it does work, so we're definitely off to a good start.
> 
> Anyway, here's another draft of the release. Feel free to change whatever
> you want:
> 
> PyORBit is a project to create Python bindings for ORBit, a fast,
> lightweight CORBA ORB used by the GNOME Desktop for application and
> component interaction (similar to Microsoft's COM). These bindings will be
> distributed under the GNU LGPL license.
> 
> PyORBit will follow the proposed OMG Python bindings to insure compliance
> and compatibility, but we will also consider non-standard optional
> extensions to improve performance and add features, if necessary.
> 
> Version 0.0.1 of PyORBit is already available thanks to Michael
> Robinson's contribution of his Python/ORBit bindings. This initial
> implementation should be functional for simple interfaces (assuming it
> compiles for you). However, this version is considered a developers-only
> release, as the structure and layout of later PyORBit releases will likely
> change to some degree. Regardless, bug reports and patches are welcome.
> 
> PyORBit is coordinated by Justin Bradford <justin at ukans.edu>.
> 
> Source and a developer's mailing list can be found at:
> http://theopenlab.uml.edu/pyorbit/
> 
> Justin
> 
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