From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Mar 12 04:35:55 1999
Subject: Re: Corba
From: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at icp dot inpg dot fr>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: 12 Mar 1999 11:35:47 +0100

>>>>> "MV" == Matthew Valenta <mvalenta at lycosmail dot com> writes:

    MV> In a nutshell, I'm throwing the idea out of implementing the GUI as
    MV> a separate program that accepts instructions via corba (or just
    MV> pipes now.)

Thanks for the clarifications, but I still do not see the real advantage of
using Corba in our case (although I like the general approach).  It is
maybe due to my lack of knowledge of Corba.  Octave has already a long
tradition of relying on existing libraries: LAPACK, BLAS, kpathsea,
readline, etc.  All those libraries are indeed independent of Octave.  Even
the Octave interpreter itself can be used as a stand-alone library.  I
think that if the design of the upcoming GUI/plotter is clean enough, it
could be transformed into a new library, useful for other projects (like
R).

Am I misunderstanding something?

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