[omniORB] python and idl files

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 14 March, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> alternatively, would it be possible to interface the _omniidl C++ API
> directly, i.e. write a IDLVisitor which populizes the IR ? I guess what
> I'm asking for is: is the internally used _omniidlmodule.so (or can it
> be) an official (i.e., public) part of omniORB ?

Well, there is a C++ API to omniidl's front-end. It could be used by a
C++ program to populate an IR. That would be essentially equivalent to
writing a Python back-end which populated an IR. The hard bit (given
an easy-to-use IDL compiler) is actually implementing the IR itself,
not the mechanism by which IDL gets into it.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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