[Biocorba-l] ORB compatibility

[Antoine van Gelder]

As Ewan pointed out, it is time to take a long hard and painful look at
the various free ORB's and make sure that they can handle what we want
to throw at them.

My own knowledge is predominantly related to C++ and Python but maybe we
can fill in the gaps between us ?

                      | any | out param | obj by val | 
----------------------+-----+-----------+------------+
orbit-c      (0.5.7)  |  Y  |     Y     |     ?      |
orbit-cpp    (0.30.1) |  Y  |     Y     |     ?      |
orbit-python (0.2.0)  |  Y  |     Y     |     ?      |
orbit-perl            |  ?  |     ?     |     ?      |
ilu                   |  dead as a dodo AND it leaks |
omniORB      (3.0.2)  |  Y  |     Y     |     Y      |
omniORBpy    (1.2)    |  Y  |     Y     |     ?      |
Java ?                |  ?  |     ?     |     ?      |
Modula-2 ?            |  ?  |     ?     |     ?      |
-----------------------------------------------------+

(Y=no problems, N=no support, B=buggy, ?=who knows)

 - antoine

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