[orbitcpp-list] Support for any in pyIDL

[Gordon M. <gm...@bi...>]

Hello,

I've been a lurker here for a few weeks and have been toying with the
Orbit-C++ code for a few versions now.  I am a very experienced C++ and
Python programmer (8 years C++ and 5 or so for python) and have been
doing CORBA for about 5 years now though the previous 2 have been using
Java.  I am very interested in helping out the C++ binding effort that
you guys have started.  My immediate goals are to work with the ORBIT
event service, but I much prefer writing C++ so I'd like to help this
effort out as much as possible.

I'm currently trying to compile the CosEventComm.idl that has any's as
arguments to some of the methods.  It's choking on the any's in the
tree_factory method of pyIdl.py  The nodetype is 29 which, of course, is
the IDLN_TYPE_ANY.  I did a clean checkout of the source this morning
from gnome so I'm pretty sure I have the latest source.  

In the ORBit-C++ web page, Phil gives some guidelines for dealing with
new types.  Is this something that I should go ahead and work on or
not?  

Thanks and I'm looking forward to being able to contribute, even if
nothing more than documentation.

Gordon Miller