Re: Emacs port to Eclipse

[Thomas L Roche <tlroche@us.ibm.com>]

Tom Roche Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:17:15 -0500
>> * Eclipse can run any COM object in a page (== <view|editor>), so a
>>   COM wrapper [for Emacs] would work

Gian Uberto Lauri Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:23:49 +0100
> Not S.O. independent :> - 

Tom Roche 02/27/2004 07:52 PM
> That's what I thought, until I heard about

> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/

> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html
> > The biggest contrast between XPCOM and MSCOM is that XPCOM
> > technology is open source.

Actually, a bigger contrast:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html
> XPCOM offers agility across platforms. It supports just about any
> platform that hosts a decent C++ compiler, including:

> * Microsoft Windows (all flavors)
> * Linux
> * HP-UX
> * AIX
> * Solaris
> * OpenVMS
> * MacOS
> * BSD

and that's from an article dated 1 February 2001.