README: FNORB 1.3
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This file provides information about installation, documentation,
and the history of Fnorb. For details of changes since Fnorb 1.2 
please refer to the CHANGES file in this distribution. For information 
regarding licensing and redistribution please refer to the LICENSE.HTML 
file. 

Installation
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Fnorb supports version 2.0 and higher of Python, and version 2.2 of Jython.
See the file README.jython for Jython details.

Fnorb now uses distuils and may be installed in the fashion of any 
other Python module. For example (Unix)
	$ tar zxf Fnorb-1.3.tar.gz; cd Fnorb-1.3
	$ python setup.py install
will build and install Fnorb as an extension module of your python 
installation. 

In addition to the standard distutils options, Fnorb will accept the 
--with-bison command line argument to specify that the older bison
C-based parser should be used over the new pure-Python IDL compiler. 
For example
	$ python setup.py install --with-bison
will build and install Fnorb as an extension module of your python
installation using the C-based parser.

For more information on options when building or installing Fnorb please
refer to the distutils SIG documentation at 
http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/

Documentation, Mailing Lists, Sourceforge
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Besides the sections on Installation, the Fnorb 1.1 user manual remains
the definitive description of the operation of Fnorb's command line
utilities and its language mapping. It is available from the Fnorb
homepage http://www.fnorb.org/

Fnorb development is active on Sourceforge and we will accept patches
and bug reports through the mechanisms provided there. Our project area
is accessible at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fnorb.

Alternatively, you may use our mailing list to send any comments, 
suggestions, or bug reports. You must join the list before you can 
post, details on how to do this are available via the web site 
http://www.fnorb.org

To contact the Fnorb team privately please use email owner-fnorb@dstc.edu.au

History and Future
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Fnorb was initially developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for
Enterprise Distributed Systems (http://www.dstc.edu.au). It was licensed
free for non-commerical use, and under various developer and deployment
licenses for commercial use. While a profitable product to the Centre,
the development of CORBA compliant Object Request Brokers was not a core
objective for the centre, and during 2001 the decision was taken to Open
Source the product.