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 > > _______________________________________________ > pyorbit maillist - pyorbit at theopenlab.uml.edu > http://theopenlab.uml.edu/mailman/listinfo/pyorbit -- +----------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | jeff at theopenlab.uml.edu | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://theopenlab.uml.edu/ | +----------------------------+