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----- Original Message ---- From: Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 23 April, 2008 7:19:12 AM Subject: Re: [c-prog] Porting COM Modules to unix/linux Tamas Marki wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Brett McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> > You've run into two of the major weaknesses of Linux: >> > >> > - A lack of a unified GUI architecture. >> >> Many Linux afficianados don't see this as a weakness :-) >> >> >> > - A lack of a unified inter-application architecture. >> >> Of course, higher level distributed architectures are available on >> Linux like CORBA and RPC. But who uses that stuff these days? :-) > > And don't forget to mention DBus - it's a pretty nice IPC system, that > is rapidly evolving, and now it is even available for other platforms > (like Windows). DBus seems to be growing in popularity - this isn't the first time I've seen it mentioned. It sounds like the sort of thing upon which a COM wrapper could be layered on top of somewhat easily for Linux. It would certainly make it easier to port Windows apps. to Linux. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/ ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.Yahoo! Groups Links Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
