[Pkg-ace-devel] ACE+TAO 6+2

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,.

> Here's a status of current patches.

Thanks for the update

> Can be committed upstream:
>  - 12-add-DESTDIR-to-MPC.dpatch. It may need a review before
>    acceptance; beside I have not tested that it does not introduce
>    regressions elsewhere. What do you suggest here? Ask for
>    comments on ace-users? Commit it then check scoreboards? Something
>    else?

Will merge this in my tree soon and commit to head later

> Needs discussion:
>  - 11-promote-QtResource-to-qt4.dpatch. That's also a hack, but Qt3 is
>    meant to be removed from Debian. I believe a lot of distro will do
>    the same, so there should be no point keeping qt3.

I think we should propose to drop qt3 after the x.0.1 release is out.

> Needs wider testing:
>  - 14-fix-tcl-flags.dpatch, since you didn't picked it on your last
>    synch. I believe it should be harmless, but I haven't checked because
>    I don't have access to an Unbuntu machine.

Ok, will have a look

>  - 19-gcc43.dpatch to silent out a g++ >= 4.3 warning on ACE_UNUSED_ARG
>    macro. by the way there are two other way to achieve the same goal:
>    1. do not name the argument in the implementation signature
>    2. use gcc __attribute__((__unused__))
>    Both require a change at the signature level.

Shouldn't be needed to my idea, gcc >= 4.3 doesn't give any warning in
all our builds.

>> R2corba should be pretty easy, it just uses some tao libs and ruby. We
>> are working on a 1.0 release of R2CORBA, together with JR2CORBA 
> 
> That's JRuby to CORBA?

Yes

>>>  - package lorica, to tunnel CORBA traffic through a firewall. The
>>>    42tools.com website seems to be down at the moment.
>>
>> It seems to be done for some time, not sure if they are still alive.
> 
> Too bad. Seemed like a great tool. Did you have the opportunity to try
> it?

No, I haven't tried it.

Johnny

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> Thomas
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