[pyorbit] What's the approach?

Phil Dawes philipd at orbitcpp.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Sep 15 08:20:38 EDT 1999


Hi all,

I had a look at the code on the web page (and got it all to compile with
some minor hacks :-) and it looks like the idl compiler generates c
stubs (although I didn't get this working on my own idl - I couldn't
find the right script to use).

I was wondering if this was the intended overall approach?   - I was
thinking more along the lines of developing a dynamic marshalling
interface to the orbit core and then having the idl compiler generate
the skeleton code in python that talks to that (i.e. no C compiler
involved).

BTW, There was a discussion on the orbit list a while ago about this and
if I remember right, the general conclusion was that writing a custom
dynamic interface was a better idea than attempting to implement dynany
in orbit, mainly because of its poor performance and difficulty of
implementation.

What's the plan folks?

Cheers,

Phil.




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