On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 02:50:38AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > I think an interesting approach would be to use CORBA. Make dpkg into > a networkable server for polymorphic package objects! G'wan, I dare > ya! :-)
Wowch! Nothing against CORBA, I love it, but if I think about the overhead. I recently compiled the 2.2 Kernel: 6 minutes, I compiled MICO: 2 hours!!! Ok, I know, handling the complexity of today computing needs powerful tools, and CORBA is jsut the way to go, but i do not think, the world is ripe for that in the *very basic* tool on any system. If you have to run a server like that just to install Debian, you can well double the minimum amount of needed memory. So, having a way to access dpkg via CORBA would be a great thing, but still it has to work without as well. Should be possible to have a simple C++ library but have IDLs for it as well in some way, so the objects can be shared. Ciao, Nobbi -- ______________________________________________________ -- JESUS CHRIST IS LORD! -- To Him, even that machine here has to obey... -- -- _________________________________Norbert "Nobbi" Nemec -- Hindenburgstr. 44 ... D-91054 Erlangen ... Germany -- eMail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel: +49-(0)-911-204180
