[pyorbit] question about the status of PyORBit

[J.W. Bizzaro]

PyORBit is/was a project started by Michael Robinson and later picked up by
Justin Bradford.  For over a year, however, no development or discussions have
been taking place.

Shortly after the start of the PyORBit project, Jason Tackaberry started the
ORBit-Python project, as a project for school.  He has since graduated, and
although he said he would continue the project, it seems he has abandoned it.

    http://projects.sault.org/orbit-python/
    Jason Tackaberry <tack at linux.com>

So, yes, they both seem to be undeveloped and abandoned.  And they are
probably the only Python bindings out there for ORBit.  If you are interested
in either, one difference I have heard others mention is that PyORBit
generates its stubs in C, not Python, and some consider that a problem.

If you are most concerned that the license be GPL, there are some excellent
Python bindings for omniORB by AT&T Research.  They far exceed the level of
development of the ORBit bindings:

    http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORBpy/

However, if you are interested in taking up/over PyORBit development, and
perhaps merging with ORBit-Python, I can give you "the keys" to PyORBit.  They
are GPL, afterall.

Cheers.
Jeff

amurie at es.co.nz wrote:
> 
> The GNUe project (http://www.gnue.org) needs a Python binding for ORBit, and
> we've been looking at both PyORBit and python-orbit. Unfortunately, neither seem
> to be in a particularly usable state.
> 
> It's quite possible that I've been looking in the wrong places for PyORBit, so
> if there are resources available, could someone please tell me where I should be
> looking?
> 
> If assistance is required, we're happy to contribute, once we know what's
> needed.
> 
> Alternatively, are there any other resources available?   It seems unlikely that
> noone else wants to use CORBA from Python programs, so we're hoping to find a
> project that's either active, or can be revived. (A contact address to
> python-orbit developers would be useful, if PyOrbit isn't being developed, as
> well.)


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J.W. Bizzaro                                           jeff at bioinformatics.org
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