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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! |