Will DCOM98 be pulled?

[Robert Shearman]

> > Nobody has yet added typelib stuff to widl, eh... I guess I could whip
> > up a framework or something to help with that, since nobody else has yet
> > done it...
>
> Actually, in the last 4 days I recruited somebody to hack on this from
> IRC. He seems pretty competent and is currently implementing the
> ICreateTypeLib[2] interfaces I think. Alexander (nyef), are you tracking
> wine-devel yet?

That's lucky, because I was going to work on that. I thought about moving
all of the typelib stuff to a library (because ITypeLib and ICreateTypeLib
must be part of the same object), so that we could use it from widl as part
of the build process.

> If you could work on the widl backend of course that'd be fantastic. I'm
> still hoping to get back to properly submitting your DCOM/apartments work
> soon, but I have 3 or 4 higher priority things on my todo list currently.
>
> I think once those two things are done we'll be able to make do without
> native DCOM in like 95% of cases..... we'd still need it for code that
> uses NdrClientCall but I think that'd be the only major missing feature
> remaining.

I have a load of code that implements NdrClientCall2 (what's the difference
between NdrClientCall and NdrClientCall2?). I am just starting work on
NdrServerCall2/NdrStubCall2.

Rob