[omniORB] python and idl files

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 14 March, Vincent Joseph wrote:

> One of the really neat abilities of ORBIT-python 
> was its ability to dynamically load an idl file at 
> run time (in the client) !! I thought that this was
> a really cool feature. What, if any, are the 
> disadvantages of this approach.

omniORBpy can already do that. Look at the omniORB.importIDL()
function. It looks as though ORBit-Python uses that as its only import
mechanism, which is very inefficient if the IDL never changes. It is
also non-compliant with the official CORBA Python mapping.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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