Re: minutes of ESC call ...

On 03/01/2012 10:25 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 20:47 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > > AA:             + l/strace-alike for UNO (Stephan)
> >
> > On a more constructive note  ;)  the above already exists, in the form
> > of<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno/Spec/Log_Environment>.
>
>         Great - so then, perhaps the GSOC task might be polishing this - making
> it easy to use [ in particular tracing ~everything a-la strace by
> default and using using grep later is a rather useful thing ].
>
>         Also - we need a dynamic_cast<>  alike that hides the UNO tunnel-ness,
> and (hopefully) does it more simply / easily too - otherwise (I guess)
> all of that breaks when we start to trace - though some easy way to
> implement XTunnel (or preferably the absence of a need to - surely UNO
> knows / can do that for us ? ) would be wonderful.

Micheal, I think I still don't understand what you are up to here.  What 
does logging have to do with XUnoTunnel?  (And we want as little as 
possible of the XUnoTunnel hack, anyway, so no idea what your 
"dynamic_cast<> alike" idea is?)

>         Do you think there is enough there to do for a GSOC project ? I guess
> we could add a few of the LibreOffice4 UNO migration things into there
> otherwise; perhaps the types.rdb replacement idea ?

Make it into a "random UNO improvements" project?  Hm, not sure.

Stephan