Re: [DotGNU]A vote for Meetathon - III

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> And the attributes are evaluated at compile time? 
> This is a very powerfull method, then via reflection the attributs of
> the class are also available? Ok well then you can use whatever is
> provided by reflection to inspect the class and generate code.

Yup ... But I'm still fighting with DeserializeAttribute .... I have
managed to identify and call the constructor of the attribute .. But
am not able to set the value of a field in the Attribute ...

[Webservice(DocText="answer to life,universe and everything")]
public static String TheQuestion()
{
        return "42";
}

And processed on first request into an internal database via Reflection,
as Galaxy.HitchHiker.TheQuestion() ...

> I will have to check out the source code, months ago you guys were
> fighting with attributes...

We've won on the compiler side as well as runtime side ... it's 
just the library side that's remaining ...

> Now, here is something crazy : but if I can call it via perl or an
> existing module, we could use the entire mod_perl and modules for
> now.... The same goes for java.

That's webservices for you ...

> There might not be enough man power to keep up an entire development
> effort, but to create a client module so that you can embed pnet inside
> another system, that would be great.

Hmmm.... that Python module (now dead) sounds awfuly similar to this ...

> Lib garbage collection, you mean to have multiple instances of it, one
> for each process? 
> Hmmm.....

Well libgc segfaults when loaded as a .so file into Apache ... Don't
know why ? ... Stack issues ?..

Gopal
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