[omniORB] ANNOUNCE: omniORB 4.1 testing

[Duncan Grisby]

After a very long time of slow development, the omniORB 4.1 branch is
finally in a state that it's stable and usable. I would appreciate it if
people could try it with real applications, and see if it works.

You can get it from CVS, on the omni4_1_develop branch, or from this
snapshot tarball:

  http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/snapshots/omniORB-4.1-latest.tar.gz

omniORBpy version 3 goes with the new release, and can be had in CVS on
the omnipy3_develop branch or this snapshot:

  http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/snapshots/omniORBpy-3-latest.tar.gz


What's new, you ask?

 - Complete support for objects by value (apart from custom valuetypes).

 - Abstract interfaces support.

 - New simpler and more efficient C++ Any implementation.

 - valuetypes and abstract interfaces inside Anys and DynAnys.

 - New SocketCollection implementation that uses poll() where available,
   and that understands Windows fd_set strangeness.


It's been quite well tested on Linux, and tested a bit on Windows and
Solaris. I'd appreciate tests on other platforms. I haven't tested
interoperability of valuetypes much, so if you have code using
valuetypes with other ORBs, I'd appreciate it if you could do some
interoperability testing.

The documentation has not yet been updated, but hopefully everything is
self explanatory.

Let me know if it works for you (or not).

Cheers,

Duncan.

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