[pyorbit] [Fwd: [pygtk] ANNOUNCE: Python/ORBit Bindings]

[Justin Bradford]

James Henstridge wrote:

>Those bindings look pretty good.  It would be nice if you made them a bit
>easier to configure though.  After fixing the paths, the
>testserver/testclient seemed to work quite well.

I considered trying to work on the code a bit more before a release, but
once I got it to compile and run the test scripts, I figured I might as
well put something out.

My plan is for 0.1.0 to be reasonably usable. I intend to have an
autoconf/automake build system, clean up the tree, and try to document
what things are, what works, etc. I'll also try to move it closer to the
proposed spec compliance (I'm not sure how close it is, yet).

I'd like to see the package distributed with gnome-python eventually, so
I'm definitely be interested in any suggestions you have.

>It looks like it has lots of potential.  Getting it to use the interface
>repository (which I hear is working in the latest versions of ORBit) and
>dynamic invocation interface, and we would have a great tool for
>writing scripts that use arbitrary CORBA interfaces.

As this release is entirely the work of Michael Robinson, I'll be spending
some time just getting up to speed with the current code. After that 
(version 0.1.0), I'll start working on extending the features. If there
are simple and obvious improvements I can make during the restructuring
(or if anyone sends patches), those will be integrated, too.

Justin