Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Date: 15 Oct 2025 21:18:20 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <7dlhrlxmm6.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10c908i$3600i$2@dont-email.me> <68ea7364$0$12948$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10cg2nd$1dscj$5@dont-email.me> <10chrko$1ujff$1@dont-email.me> <1NucnWt3DZqBMHH1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10cig9g$23kb8$2@dont-email.me> <10cjsig$2gp1i$2@dont-email.me> <34ecncooOcDVeXP1nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net VpUgzEoQSMwh8HJ13/vGFg8I19gKZJhQxpjvQMdw4mZCu5Z6OI Cancel-Lock: sha1:no2uSxFssjfxMECakcBeksPFx8I= sha256:Dp1NndxPer4vnvmmkvUJiGUYmCW3uEjAADl8HohpEqU= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76206 On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:33:43 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 10/15/25 01:36, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2025-10-15, c186282 wrote: >> >>> On 10/14/25 02:56, rbowman wrote: >>> >>>> The path from DDE to OLE to COM is another one of those evolutions >>>> that could have used some natural selection. >>> >>> COMs are a bit weird for my tastes. Lots of languages have their >>> own takes on them however. >>> >>> Hmm ... how to best code something like that in K&R 'C' ? >> >> I looked into it briefly. It became eye-glazingly complex very >> quickly. I punted and re-designed everything using sockets. Much >> simpler - and more portable. > > Much agreed. COMs were kind of a "first try", but better approaches > soon arrived. CORBA was no ball of joy either. However it sort of faded away while COM lived on.