Brad Chapman wrote: > > > Should the DL be split into 2 parts then? > > What do you mean by this? My plan was that the dl should be split into > two parts programmatically (ie. two different servers with APIs). I > think the two different objects will need to interoperate quite a bit, > and haven't though about separating them formally with corba or > something. Yeah, I'm just thinking that if the DL is 2 parts in functionality, maybe would could make the 2 parts different programs and give them different names. > > Better support for multithreading is something the ORBit developers > > are working on? > > You're asking me about gnome development? :-) I looked through the > gnome-devel archives and didn't seem much mention of orbit development > (there is an orbit list but I couldn't find an archive for it). From > my rough estimation, it seems like orbit isn't under continual > development by anyone, but is enhanced when a general need for > enhancement arises in gnome. Threading issues are on the out of date > (the developers' words, not mine) todo list in cvs, but I have no > concept of when this might be addressed (probably as soon as someone > wants it bad enough to hack on it). I don't see any mention of > implementing a trading service, and I kind of doubt this is on many > people's mind since I think this is what gnorba and bonobo are meant > to do. But I'm just guessing at all this. If anyone knows better, I'd > love to hear it. I used to subscribe to the ORBit list. It was (and still is AFAIK) maintained by this guy Elliot over at RHAD Labs. I wouldn't say ORBit development has died. It's a very important part of Gnome. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+