[Biocorba-l] idl 0.2 discussion

[Jason Stajich]

Well, I haven't seen a tremendous amount of discussion on the language
lists or bioxml.  I suspect that much of the CORBA stuff doesn't apply to
enough people at this point to get heated debates, or we all like it so
much there is nothing to say.  I'm not sure when Alan gets back, but I'd
like to put a date on finishing discussion on the proposal and moving
towards freezing the idl as version 0.2.

I propose Mon Dec 11.  Once we have closed discussion and the group feels
there is a consensus to finalize the version we can finish the various
language implementations.  I'm not sure how the biocorba release schedule
will work if new features must be added to language projects to support
the idl.  For example, I don't think that fuzzy feature location support
will make it into bioperl 0.7 which should be released in early January.
It will be mightly hard to have a coordinated release across all 3 lang
projects, but it *COULD* be possible since part of BioCorba's mission is
to have minumum set of functionality across all the language projects.
(I'm not leaving EMBOSS out in the cold here intentionally, I just don't
know how/where they fit in right now.)

For those non-internals coders out there we need helping making a list of 
supported ORBs, platforms, and interpreter/compiler versions.  We will
also need a much more extensive testing suites for each of the language to
help establish supported environments.  This would be a great place for
those wanting to help, but unsure of where to start.  

Jason

Jason Stajich
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