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authorMartin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org>1998-12-01 16:22:00 +0000
committerMartin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org>1998-12-01 16:22:00 +0000
commite375457f7c5331b49dfaaceb54c1d325511d9058 (patch)
tree96577002e96257073810c36925785403c9a6333f /devel/ilu/pkg-descr
parentadd dnsutl (diff)
Update to ILU-2.0alpha13.
Disable native shared library support, doesn't work, use own scheme as before. Don't use shared library version numbering on ELF for now, needs more thought. Document shared library version numbering scheme I chose. Pump shared library version number on aout. Better COMMENT and DESCR (still too long). Remove patch to regognize now outdated FreeBSD JDK.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=15019
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-The Inter-Language Unification system (ILU) is a multi-language object
-interface system. The object interfaces provided by ILU hide
-implementation distinctions between different languages, between
-different address spaces, and between operating system types. ILU can
-be used to build multi-lingual object-oriented libraries ("class
-libraries") with well-specified language-independent interfaces. It
-can also be used to implement distributed systems. It can also be
-used to define and document interfaces between the modules of
-non-distributed programs. ILU interfaces can be specified in either
-the OMG's IDL language, or in ILU's Interface Specification Language,
-which allows extensions to the CORBA spec. Programming languages
-supported in 2.0alpha12 are ANSI C, Common Lisp, Java, and Python;
-rough Guile Scheme and C++ support is also present. Additional ILU
-support for Perl is freely available from outside sources. Operating
-systems supported in 2.0alpha12 are all Windows platforms with Win32
-and WinSock, and all UNIX platforms with BSD sockets and minimal POSIX
-compliance. 2.0alpha12 supports interoperability with ONC RPC
-services, OMG CORBA services, World Wide Web HTTP services, and XNS
-Courier services. ``Plug-in'' extensibility is provided for RPC
-message formats, message transport schemes, URL schemes, accounting
-and authorization identity types, threading and event loop processing,
-and various other things. ILU is provided free for unrestricted use.
+ILU is a CORBA-compatible multi-language Object Request Broker.
+
+You define class interfaces in a language-independent way and
+implement them in a language of your choice. Currently supported
+languages are C, Java (See Makefile how to enable Java Support on
+FreeBSD), Common Lisp (Allegro CL 4.x in Linux emulation mode may work
+on FreeBSD) and Python. Rough support for C++ (the old C++ support is
+built by default on FreeBSD) and Guile Scheme (built if you have Guile
++ slib installed) is also present. perl support is available from the
+net. ILU also runs on Win32 which means Unix and Win32 objects can
+freely talk to each other.
+
+2.0alpha13 supports interoperability with ONC RPC services, OMG CORBA
+services, World Wide Web HTTP services, and W3C HTTP-NG services.
+``Plug-in'' extensibility is provided for RPC message formats, message
+transport schemes, URL schemes, accounting and authorization identity
+types, threading and event loop processing, and various other things.
+An implementation of the IETF's Common Authentication Technology
+working group's Generic Security Service (GSS) is provided, and can be
+used to wrap client-server connections in a security context. An XML
+parser is provided. ILU is provided free for unrestricted use.
FreeBSD port notes:
-- I enabled http protocol support by default.
+- I enabled support for the http protocol support.
+- The FreeBSD port has its own scheme to build and use shared
+ libraries. The official support is incomplete.
- Official ILU patches are not fetched from PARC, but I hold a proven
- snapshot at one of my own sites.
+ snapshot that doesn't conflict with my patches at one of my own sites.
- configure --bindir/--mandir doesn't work with current ILU version.
I make symbolic links to ${PREFIX}/{bin,man}.
-- The FreeBSD port builds shareds libs for C libraries.
-- jdk-1.1 for FreeBSD works, but is disabled by default because the
- FreeBSD jdk is still in aout object format.
+- I don't use shared library version numbers on ELF systems for now.
+- Shared library versioning scheme history for aout:
+ *.so.1: ilu-2.0a12, *.so.2: ilu-2.0a13