[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Windows COM client

[Jarda Benkovsky <pvt.benkovsk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arlo Belshee wrote:
> 
> I agree with you on this one: portability is key. I am thinking of creating
> a structure that operates in a similar fashion to COM, but is far more
> barebones. It doesn't do registry magic, and isn't designed to work with
> anything outside this project or this group of developers. It depends on
> some central information store that we would create and define (stating what
> components there are and where they can be found), which is not expected to
> contain information outside of the FreeCiv project.

If you want something like lightweight COM/CORBA, look at Crystal Space
- they have something named SCF, which is just that. Source code
available and free :)

                                        Edheldil