[Pkg-ace-devel] Re: REACTOR_SEPERATION build of ACE

[Balachandran Natarajan]

Marek-

	Sorry for the late one. 

>     Finally I reached the milestone I planned. Could you take a look at 
> REACTOR_SEPARATION branch
> for ACE_wrappers and MPC, please?. I hope there will be only bug fixes 

Will take look later today and get back to you.

> int projects related with Qt and Xt.
> Moreover, probably the ACE parts of Fl and Tk are also almost finished.  
> There is new chapter in
> ACE-INSTALL.html on GUI reactors which may help in testing my changes.
> 
>     While projects in ACE part are almost finished for all GUI reactors, 
> there is a
> problem for Tk and Fl reactors in TAO/tao/Strategies. Actually, TAO 
> folder builds correctly when setting
> tk,x11,gl,fl,ace_tkreactor,tao_tkreactor,ace_flreactor,tao_flreactor 
> features as avalaible eg.
> in ACE_wrappers/TAO
> 
> mwc.pl -features 
> tk=1,x11=1,gl=1,fl=1,ace_tkreactor=1,tao_tkreactor=1,ace_flreactor=1,tao_flreactor=1 
> TAOACE.mwc
> make tk=1 x11=1 gl=1 fl=1 ace_tkreactor=1 tao_tkreactor=1 
> ace_flreactor=1 tao_flreactor=1
> 
> The same procedure applied in tests and examples directories builds Fl 
> and Tk related projects. However it is
> imposible now to build TAO::Strategies without these features, what 
> obviously cannot be accepted. It also seems

Precisely. Among other things the above reactors are not good enough for
any serious application. 

> that Fl and Tk support in TAO was unavailable for a long time..

I don't know what you mean by long time ;). 

> My next plan is to separate Fl and Tk reactors in TAO directories. I 
> want to:
> 1. Create fl(tk)_resource files and tao_fl(tk)reactor projects in 
> TAO/tao directory. This part is similiar to solution for qt(xt)_resources.
> 2. Replace static references to Fl and Tk reactors in 
> TAO/tao/Strategies/advanced_resources.cpp by dynamic linking with these 
> reactors. In more
> details I want to preserve back-compatibility by looking for fl and tk 
> resource in tao_Fl(Tk)Reactor shared libraries when AdvancedResourceFactory
> wants to use fl or tk reactor. This way one will not need to link 
> TAO::Strategies with Fl(Tk) related libraries.

Hmm.. How will this work with static linked libraries and applications?

> 3. Remove ACE_HAS_TK and ACE_HAS_FL macros from everyplace and mutually 
> derive Fl(Tk)-related examples and tests in TAO
> from tao_fl(tk)reactors.
> 4. Check if everything is working as planned :-)
> 5. Create svc.confs and modify examples and tests to use use 
> fl(tk)_resource factories. This resembles solution for TAO/tao/QtTests.
> 6. Check if everything is working once again, this time also for win32 :-))
> 7. Call for a detailed review and eventually merge branches.
> 
> As previously I did not touch yet automake/autoconfigure parts of ACE, 
> though I intend to do this.

Sounds like a plan. Let me take a look and see whether I can provide
you with good feedback.

Thanks
bala