> I am probably going to at least add a bit more than minimal OSA
> compliance to Mac Python, and then evaluate whether it is worth
> additional effort, or whether I should just use ILU. ( Or - if there
> is no freely|cheaply available generic Unix SOM by then: whether OSA
> can be built on top of ILU instead of SOM. If both are CORBA compliant,
> they *should* be able to interoperate.
Just to note that a high priority for the ILU project is to implement
the CORBA interoperability spec agreed on by the OMG. This spec should
allow IBM's DSOM, Xerox's ILU, Sun's DOE, etc., all to interoperate.
One side-effect of this will be to allow implementations of OpenDoc
objects in, say, Python, using the ILU-Python interface. ILU-Python is
currently available in beta form; see
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html for details, and scarf the
ilu-1.7beta release.
Note that ILU frowns on the use of certain evil OMG IDL
interface-destroying constructs, such as ``any'' and ``Object''. More
like scowls, actually. OMG IDL files that contain these evil constructs
are not currently usable in ILU.
Bill