NAME: ORBit VERSION: 0.5.17 RELEASE: 2 SUMMARY: A high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker. DISTRIBUTION: Cygwin GNOME 1.4 VENDOR: LICENSE: LGPL/GPL PACKAGER: Hansom Young GROUP: System Environment/Daemons OS: Cygwin ARCH: i586 SOURCE RPM: DESCRIPTION: ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker). It allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables communication between program objects, regardless of the programming language they are written in or the operating system they run on. You will need to install this package and ORBit-devel if you want to write programs that use CORBA technology. -------------------------------------------------------------------- @ ORBit category: GNOME-libs sdesc: " A high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker." ldesc: "ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker). It allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables communication between program objects, regardless of the programming language they're written in or the operating system they run on. . You will need to install this package and ORBIT-devel if you want to write programs that use CORBA technology." requires: glib curr: 0.5.17-2 prev: 0.5.17-1 @ ORBit-devel category: GNOME-devel GNOME-libs sdesc: "Development libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB" ldesc: "ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker) with support for the C language. . This package contains the header files, libraries and utilities necessary to write programs that use CORBA technology. If you want to write such programs, you'll also need to install the ORBIT package." requires: glib-devel ORBit curr: 0.5.17-2 prev: 0.5.17-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About this Cygwin port ----------------------- Built with Steven O'Brien's latest patch (published on Mar 04 ) Refer to http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/ for detail info about Cygwin GNOME patches and instructions. Built on cygwin-1.3.12, with gcc-2.95.3, binutils-20011002, gettext-0.11.5 and glib-1.2.10. Not tested on other configuration. Cygwin Port Log: ---------------- Mar 09, 2003 0.5.17-2 Rebuilt with Steven O'Brien's new patch. "An important bug fix in ORBit means that all capplets now run correctly without crashing on exit." Jan 26, 2003 0.5.17 Updated to 0.5.17, built with patch 20021125 Nov 2, 2002 0.5.15 Updated to 0.5.15, built with Steven's new patch (20020727) July 30, 2002 0.5.13 Build with Steven's new patch (20020612) Jun 8, 2002 0.5.8 Build with Steven O'Brian's patch Build ORBit for Cygwin: ----------------------- In order to build ORBit, you need glib package. You can found source package of glib and ORBit at ftp://www.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources Patches for Cygwin port of GNOME is maintained by Steven O'Brian at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/ Prebuild binary package of glib could be found on the Cygwin GNOME project (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/cygnome). You need to download package glib and glib-devel.