Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Dec 2000 07:29:30 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated > > as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with ^^^^^^^^ > > UNIX. > > Oh they are definitely unix people, but ORBit is about solving a very > different sort of problem to scribbling bits on a disk, or it was until very > crazy people got involved
<shrug> From what I've seen in GNOME it's mostly about avoiding pipes religiously and putting everything and a kitchen sink into the same process. I'm not saying that it has no valid uses, but it definitely had contributed to the bloat in case of GNOME.
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