jarl van katwijk wrote: > > -Make the dl be a 'wrapper' for UI's, not an extension. > I'm saying this: let the DL make programming new UI's easy. So, how would the DL 'wrap' a UI? Isn't this the same as making the UI a library? > Various scripting and new GUI can be developped fast that way. I dont know WHAT > the DL should be doing, that's probably a question that Brad can answer best, > but > programming the BL corba and implementing the DL api every time again when > somebody makes an UI\DL (read: single application) seems like a dull thing to do. But which is easier: making the DL in C and making language bindings to the DL, or making a new corba idl? > About (4), we'll only need 2 authentication systems, the UI wont log into the DL, The original Loci plan was to have a UI log into the 'Middle'. I think both Brad and I were expecting this to happen in VSH between UI and DL. > > (2) Other UI's would have to be made in Python. > > They have to? There's no way the DL code can be compiled as binairy?? > (Python -> C -> binairy) I was suggesting to pull out Brad's upper teeth. Now you're suggesting to pull out his lower teeth ;-) Making the DL in C is an option, and one I did not think of. Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+