Anders Hessellund Jensen wrote, On 12/6/2005 3:09 PM:
Lars Kühne wrote:
This question hasn't been addressed yet. I really don't see the point
of maintaining our own copy either. Where did that copy originate -
isn't it based on the OMG files anyway?
I think the current files originate from the ORB in Trifork P4.
Originally, OMG did not distribute the idl files for the spec (as far
as i know). They used idl in the specification document, but no raw
idl files.
The OpenORB compiler supports local interfaces, and it is used to
compile the OMG idl files in the OpenORB build, so that part could
probably work. However the JacORB compiler is much more stable than
the OpenORB compiler which has a *huge* amount of bugs, and one of
those might become relevant for the test IDLs.
I did a bit of experimentation with the OpenORB compiler, and it is
also my impression that the JacORB compiler is more mature. I also
don't think the OpenORB compiler would be able to compile the OMG idl
files without modifying these significantly, or at least more than we
would have to with the JacORB compiler. With the JacORB compiler I was
able to compile the orb.idl and PortableServer.idl from OMG with only
one minor addition.
Ok, let's follow Dain's advice and run with the JacORB compiler.
Regards,
Alan
