It's corba, how didn't I think of that ;( Yes, I have used corba with Python (much more than that swig), but I am now so relieved to see the akka.idl with only nine functions that I am going to sleep.. So It has to wait till tomorrow.. Thanks, k On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:21, Chahine M. HAMILA wrote: > Salaam Muhammed, > Well, swig is already python ready. So you can actually have both perl AND > python as Akka front-ends (the idea of using swig on the client side was to > make it possible to develop client interfaces and dashboards etc, in > everyone's favorite language with a minimum effort, it had been conceived to > make it as extensible as it could be - but the problem seems that no one has > taken advantage of it so it might not be needed in the end). The reason I > mentioned C was that you would directly code the client out of the generated > corba C interface. Now, if you mean calling the corba interface directly > from a python client, then you can do that too of course, there's nothing in > favor of any language or another. In fact that could be done in perl too and > bypass the C-perl through swig interfacing. The only limitation of that is > simply that it would be harder to add scripting languages on the client > side, but as I just said, no one is taking advantage of it, so... > Anyway, for what you want to do, and assuming we are keeping corba, you > really don't need to dwell on fribidi or the whole daemon server code, you > just need to understand the client side (which means only the IDL > interface), which is trivial (in other words, if you have grips of corba > with python it should only take you a few minutes to create a configuration > script for your daemon or to start coding your own nifty client). > So as first steps, I suggest: > - if you never used corba and python: here are a few tutorials (I have no > idea what they're worth, I have no knowledge of python, one of the folks to > ask for more pointers here is Mohamad Elzubeir as far as python goes) > http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/CORBA/Tutorials/Introduction/Tutorial_Python_1.html > http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORBpy/tutorial/ > - now if you know corba, then your life is magnitudes easier and you can > already start coding, just check the akka IDL file, you should implement > your client/configuration simply by calling the methods on the interface, I > guess it shouldn't take you more than a few minutes. > > Moe (Elzubeir) or Youssef or whoever is currently maintaining the arabeyes > site, have you kept my old arabeyes page somewhere, it contained good > pointers for those who wanted to hack Akka? > Later! > ---- > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > Developer at arabeyes dot org > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer -- Muhammad Abdulmuneim Alkarouri Teaching Assistant Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Architecture University of Khartoum Khartoum, Sudan
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part