[omniNotify] Development Status

[Matthew Berry]

Bob,

Thanks for your reply - glad to hear omniNotify is still being worked on,
albeit slowly.

Correct me if I am wrong, by I don't think omniNotify supports persistent
events at the moment. Have you considered this for future development?

Thanks again
Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert E. Gruber [mailto:gruber@research.att.com]
> Sent: 10 October 2002 15:17
> To: Matthew Berry; omninotify-list@omniorb-support.com
> Cc: Robert E. Gruber
> Subject: RE: [omniNotify] Development Status
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I have a lot less time for omniNotify development
> than I used to.  Perhaps I've been somewhat in denial about this
> which is why I haven't mentioned it earlier.
> 
> This means any major new features will not
> happen without outside help.  Below are the things I still plan
> to do this year myself (although I do ask for autoconf help :->)...
> 
> The official omniNotify 2.0 release will be just like the
> current 2.0.ALPHA release (plus the small
> fix recently requested by Janet), except I think it would be
> good to get autoconf support working.   Right now you need
> to use the older omniORB build scheme.
> 
> Is there anyone out there with autoconf expertise willing
> to do this part of the project for me?  I am really pressed
> for time at the moment.
> 
> The next step, for omniNotify 2.1, is to do a
> Windows NT/2000 port.  
> 
> As others have pointed out recently,
> you can run the notification daemon, notifd,
> on a linux/other box and run all of the suppliers
> and consumers that you like on Windows boxen, so it is 
> not a total loss for Windows folks that there is no Windows
> port yet for the notification daemon.  Of course
> some people want to run everything on one machine, so
> a port would be nice.
> 
> I cannot give a time frame for this port
> as my other work keeps piling up,
> and I have to take care of that first.
> It looks like I will have time to work
> on this in December.  If I start working on it sooner
> than that I will send out another
> note indicating when I expect to get something out.
> 
> -- Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: omninotify-list-admin@omniorb-support.com
> [mailto:omninotify-list-admin@omniorb-support.com]On Behalf Of Matthew
> Berry
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 10:23 AM
> To: omninotify-list@omniorb-support.com
> Subject: [omniNotify] Development Status
> 
> Bob,
> 
> Can you please give us an update on the development currently 
> underway for
> omniNotify. When is the next release and what is it likely to contain?
> 
> Thanks
> Matthew
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