[mercury-users] MCORBA

[Tyson Dowd]

Hi,

David Jeffery and myself are still maintaining it, but not very actively.

David has made some improvements that we are really wanting to roll up
into a new release.  Unfortunately lots of other things (PhD theses,
other Mercury developments) are getting in the way.

The code is quite untidy, for some time I have been looking at a few
ways to fix this.

I have been looking at the possibility of fixing MCORBA to use the
new Mercury compiler backend to generate C++ code instead of the
convoluted tricks we use now.  When we started MCORBA this backend
didn't exist.  This would be much easier if we also had
a better C++ interface, which I have been working on very recently. 
With these two changes, the code for MCORBA would be greatly simplified,
and we'd be able to work on it much more easily.

If there are particular improvements or fixes you need, we'd certainly
be happy to work on them. 

On 25-Jul-2000, Roy Ward <rward at infoscience.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> Is there any work still being done on MCORBA?
> I notice that the last public release is 0.2
> in Dec 1998.
> 
> I'm curious because MCORBA is a tool for a
> project that I'm working on, and I'm a little
> concerned that it might not be maintained
> anymore.
> 
> I've mamaged to get MCORBA going (with a hack
> or two) with the recently released omniORB 3.0.0,
> but it's very untidy, and I was wondering if
> there were any plans to upgrade it at any stage?
> 
> At this stage, MCORBA pretty much does what I
> want, but it's politically useful to tell my
> "Why aren't you using Java like the rest of us?"
> colleagues that all the bits I require for
> linking to the rest of the project are still
> being maintained.
> 
> Cheers,
> Roy Ward,
> Research Slave,
> http://nzdis.otago.ac.nz
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