Re: Building Mozilla under GCC/free compiler on Win32

[Simon P. Lucy]

At 08:35 17/01/2001 -0600, Ken Kozman wrote:
> > on unix there is no magic: the assumption is that one compiler is used to
> > build everything.
> >
>
>But that may not be the case if XPCOM can be turned into a system
>architecture instead of just used for application plugins/extensions. MSCOM
>is powerful because classes which are registered, are registered for the
>entire system. Wouldn't it be nice to get this sort of component reuse at
>the entire system level, not just for individual Mozilla type applications?

You'd really need out of process as well as in process going as well for a 
system component, which then implies data marshalling and the rest of 
it.  For a while I thought that was the intent and direction of XPCOM but I 
was wrong.

Simon