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Yeah, DCOM was a task of fillout the correct fields with the correct values, and try again until you get it right. Anyone with passing C++ knowledge could do it
by bluejekyll 10y ago
Yeah, DCOM was a task of fillout the correct fields with the correct values, and try again until you get it right. Anyone with passing C++ knowledge could do it through shear brute force.
It's one of the things which made me never want to program on Windows again.
- kazinator 10y agoI ported a bunch of COM to Linux in the late 1990's. Not DCOM with the full RPC, but just in-process COM. I had .so shared libs with DllMain and DllCanUnload now in them, I had CoCreateClass, I had a significant part of the registry API implemented in terms of a text file store (HKEY_LOCAL_USER being in the home directory, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE somewhere in /etc, ...) and such. IUnknown, QueryInterface, AddRef, Release, ...
- snaky 10y agoThat's nice, but having CORBA implementations - why?
- kazinator 10y agoTo port some code as-is.
- MichaelMoser123 10y agoNetscape did that with XPCOM [1] they once thought that this is a good idea - i guess for versioning of interfaces; nowadays firefox has moved on from this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM
- Quiark 10y agoHaha, funny enough our company did this as well - we had lots of legacy C++ code using COM and wanted to port to Linux. It was not that hard after all.