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

[Balachandran Natarajan]

Marek-

	You wamy want to wait until the present beta find its way out. 
This woudl also give me time to review your changes. I am now swamped
on a DARPA project. Will get to this once the tide crosses the shores.

Thanks
Bala

> 
> Hi,
>     I tested REACTION_SEPARATION branch under Win32. I made only small 
> modifications to three *.mpb files. My tests included
> QtReactor and FlReactor as I do not have neither Tk nor X11 (are there 
> any for win32? can we use X11 under cygwin?). The results
> are as follows:
> 1. Reactors compile nicely.
> 2. ACE passes tests of QtReactor and FlReactor.
> 3. TAO compiles with new features.
> 4. TAO tests for QtReactor and FlReactor fail for some unknown reasons.
>     Shortly, everything works well on ACE level, but TAO GUI reactors 
> are buggy.
> 
>     Nevertheless, I propose to merge REACTOR_SEPARATION branch if my 
> results are conformed and changes are accepted as
> I suppose that failures in TAO are not implied by my modifications. I 
> checked out and compiled the main trunk and found
> out that TAO tests also fail in the same way. Well, these bugs should be 
> removed, but the REACTOR_SEPARATION branch was
> dedicated to deal with TAO bugs.  And, the longer the branches  are 
> distinct the harder is the merging.
> 
> Your comments are welcomed
> Marek Brudka
>