[Python-Dev] PEPS, version control, release intervals

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> 
> > Does this mean that doing CORBA et al. with Python 2.0 is
> > currently not possible ?
> >
> > I will have a need for this starting this summer (along with SOAP
> > and XML), so I'd be willing to help out. Who should I contact ?
> 
> No.  You can use OmniORBpy as long as you're careful not to mix your strings
> with your unicode objects.

Good news :-) Thanks.
 
> I don't know the tale of SOAP.  soaplib seems stuck at 0.8.  Not that I blame
> anyone: the experience of hacking a subset of SOAP into 4Suite Server left me
> in a bad mood for days.  Someone was tanked when they came up with that.
> 
> XML is rather an odd man out in your list.  Do you mean custom XML over HTTP
> or somesuch?

Well, for one SOAP is XML-based and I am planning to add full 
XML support to our application server this summer (still waiting
for the dust to settle :-). The reason for trying to support SOAP
is that some very important legacy system vendors (e.g. SAP)
are moving into this direction.

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