InstallShield and ole question...

[Andreas Mohr]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:47:01PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Jeremy White wrote:
> > > This getes me back to the other part of the question, is anyone currently
> > > working on this? I know people at CodeWeavers supposedly were working on
> > > getting the various mutations of InstallShield working, this error seems
> > > to be pretty common across all InstallSheild v6 based installers I've seen.
> > > I had also heard there was progress getting Alice install working at
> > > TransGaming, is that InstallSheild v6 based?
> >
> > AFAIK, no one is actively doing this.  We're working hard on the
> > installers, including everything up to the point of actually 
> > diving of the COM/DCOM cliff.
> 
> http://freedce.sourceforge.net/ is an open source project to implement COM.
> It's been around quite some time, and started off from the same 
> DCE sources that Microsoft based its stuff on.
> (See also http://linas.org/linux/corba.html )
> It was dormant for a while, but I think it's being worked on again.
> 
> I wonder if that might not be useful here?
Actually linuxtoday.com happens to link to an article at
www.consultingtimes.com/DCE.html
just today :-)

(headline "The Free DCE project - Trying to regain lost ground...")

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