[Portland] Project Portland, RuDI and the Generic desktop adapter

Alex Graveley alex at beatniksoftware.com
Wed Dec 7 19:41:22 EET 2005


Yes, welcome! :)

Your project looks very interesting, I'll have a look at the code soon.

I personally agree with your assessment of ABI stability wrt to RUDI on 
your dadapt page, so I'm happy to see a proposal for a more traditional 
approach which we can use to compare and contrast the two.

-Alex


nf2 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> May i join in your discussion? :-)
> 
> I have already written a poposal and a prototype for a cross desktop 
> interface in between applications and desktops, called "The Generic 
> Desktop Adapter". It seems very close to what "RuDI" wants to achieve, 
> but using a traditional in-process library approach with dlopen().
> 
> http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/
> 
> Perhaps you can give me some feedback on my proposal and tell me if it 
> makes sense to continue working in that direction.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
> Norbert
> 
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