Re: Voting reminder: OLE

El Jue 17 Abr 2003 14:30, Jesus M. Castagnetto escribió: > --- Xavier Noguer <xnoguer@rezebra.com> wrote: > > El Jue 17 Abr 2003 02:30, LIMBOURG Arnaud escribio: > > > +1 > > > > > > Wha will be the category ? Structures ? > > > > Yes. I'm proposing it for Structures. > > > > > > Xavier > > +1 for the pacakage (although I do not use Windows) > -1 for Structures as a category > > Using that name can be confusing, because usually when you see classes/libs > classified under a "Structures" category, one tend to think about data > structures, e.g.: lists, linked lists, sets, bags, maps, stacks, heaps, > etc. OLE's internal structure tries to resemble a filesystem, with files and directories. In that sense it is a data structure. > I am not sure if I would put OLE as a structure (if that were true, then > CORBA would be one too), but as a interprocess protocol or something along > those lines. I'm not trying to implement COM. The OLE format is just that, a format for containing files. The package implements an API for reading an OLE container's contents or writing them, nothing more. Xavier