[omniORB] python and idl files

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 14 March, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> does this mean omniORB has 'kind of' an interface repository
> mechanism ? I know that it doesn't have a real one but how hard
> would it be to add the missing pieces to have a real IR ?

No, omniORB does not have any kind of interface repository. The
importIDL() function simply forks the IDL compiler and execs the
output within Python.

If you want to implement an interface repository, I think Python would
be the ideal language to do it...

Cheers,

Duncan.

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