Re: [HACKERS] CORBA STATUS

On 9 Nov 1999, Brian E Gallew wrote:

> Then <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> spoke up and said:
> > imho it will be extremely difficult to find an ORB which could be
> > injected directly into the Postgres server. It would likely reduce the
> > number of platforms Postgres runs on, and would not be considered
> > acceptable.
>
> On the other hand, this is where the power of configure comes into
> play. Assuming we have servers for multiple ORBs, configure can look
> to see what's installed (TAO, Orbit, whatever) and then build only
> that server.

ACtually, I believe Thomas was referring to those platforms that we
currently support that have no ORBs available to them...being a "purely C"
server so far, how many of our currently supported platforms are we going
to cut off with this?

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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