[pyorbit] What's the approach?

[Phil Dawes]

Michael Robinson wrote:
> 
> >I was wondering if this was the intended overall approach?
> 
> It was my personal intended overall approach.  I want to use Python as a
> middleware/second-tier scripting language.  In those applications, you
> almost always have a well-defined interface (or, at least, should), and
> performance is very big consideration.
> 

Ah, right. My motivation is simply writing objects for desktop use, and
maybe running python objects in the same address space as C++ objects
and perl objects if there are shortcircuit performance benefits to be
had. This would mean that the dynamic interface to the orbit core would
be an abstraction above IIOP - maybe GIOP compliant, which the orbit
core could then marshall onto the IIOP wire, or directly to other
objects running in the same orb.

> I can appreciate that for other applications people would want dynamic
> marshalling.  I think the world is big enough for both approaches, and
> people should work on implementing whichever approach they have the most
> pressing need for.
 
Agreed.

Cheers,

Phil.