Hello people. I have some questions

[Alex Martelli]

"Paul Rubin" <phr-n2001 at nightsong.com> wrote in message
news:7xbskwnnki.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com...
> "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
    ...
> There's a faction (Gnome) trying to automate GNU/Linux desktop apps
> with CORBA, which is like COM only fancier.  I don't know of any
> attempts yet to gnomify Star Office though.
>
> >Maybe I should look into the Java (Jython) side of things instead.
>
> That would be going to the dark side.

It IS murky, but I hear that Java can easily talk to StarOffice,
which was my point -- so I can automate StarOffice with Python,
in a way that's portable between, e.g., a Windows '98 box and
a Linux Mandrake 8.0 one, both running StarOffice & Python.  I
tend to have some doubts that I can do this with Corba (as you
say, I don't know of any corbification of StarOffice either),
COM (no COM on the Linux box), or other ways...?


Alex