Re: [GNUe] Various newbie questions

[Reinhard Mueller]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.01.2005, 21:35 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Keller:
> > Currently, only XMLRPC is working, and SOAP is probably close to
> > working.
> 
> No Corba yet? Oops.

No. Probably xml-rpc's fault to work well enough so there was no need to
look at corba :)

> > What datatype would you be missing, for example?
> 
> Floats (or better: arbitrary precision numbers) and integers?

They are there, it's the numeric datatype.

> Durations?

== Time.

> Bit Strings? Binaries (n*bytes)? BLOBs (or links to the filesystem)?

They are definitely missing and somewhere on our TODO list. Main problem
was the very different way databases handle blobs.

> BTW: If most of the Developers are located in Europe, will some of you be
> present at the EuroPython?

Göteborg is quite far away for most of us (Austria, Hungary).

Depending on where exactly you are from, it might be interesting for to
come to the FOSDEM in Bruxelles. I will be there at the FSFE booth and
will most probably meet other GNUe developers there.

Thanks,
-- 
Reinhard Mueller
GNU Enterprise project
http://www.gnue.org
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