[Biocorba-l] idl 0.2 discussion

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Jason Stajich wrote:

> 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.

Yeah. My only dispute now is that I do think that maxlenght should be on
the AnonymousSeq interface. Although alan is right that it is a property
of the server/database, this does not help a client which has a subroutine
that is declared to take an anonymousseq. This subroutine has to know how
much it can yank out of the server at any one time.


> 
> 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.)
> 

I suspect that the CORBA idl should freeze before the projects freeze, and
then the language specific project mapping freeze at their own rates.
Hmmmmm. 

> 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.  
> 

Indeed. 

> Jason
> 
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