Extension to Samba IDL.

Sander Striker s.striker at striker.nl
Tue Jun 20 22:20:30 GMT 2000


>Luke,
>
>I'm confused.  Your answers are not making sense to me.

:-)

>Microsoft has their own IDL called MIDL, right?

Right, it's a superset/subset of DCE/RPC IDL as far as I know.
Some parts overlap but have other names in MIDL. Other parts
are missing and they've added some own extensions.

>Might they not add extensions to this language?

Yes.

>Why should we not create a super-set called SambaIDL that does add 
>extensions to the MIDL language?
>
>Are their conflicts between MIDL and OpenGroup IDL?

I'm not really sure, I focused mainly on MIDL.

>If not, can we not create a super-set of *both* IDL versions?

I think that would be the best option.

>Aaargh.

Sander

>Chris -)-----

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