[Dev] Re: refcounted

[Lisa Dusseault]

I'm tending to agree with John here.  What's the cost to keeping the 
refcounted and non-refcounted modes?  Are we going to test both modes?  
apply fixes to both modes?  document, etc?  Unused code goes stale 
quickly.

Lisa

On Oct 24, 2004, at 6:36 PM, John Anderson wrote:

> I already did that -- that wasn't my point. I was suggesting removing 
> the refcounted kwd since I can't think of any reason you'd want to use 
> the repository non ref counted -- and if you can think of a reason, 
> the kwd should be nonrefcounded so no kwd is ref counted (i.e. a 
> sensable default)
>
> Andi Vajda wrote:
>
>>
>> You're welcome to turn it on in application/Application.py, line 207.
>> Same applies to the -exclusive option, line 206, the app needs to 
>> decide what it wants to do there as well.
>>
>> Andi..
>>
>> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, John Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> Andi:
>>>
>>> Now that we have the refcounted option in the repository, I'd vote 
>>> for making it the default and eliminating the option of 
>>> non-refcounting altogether -- unless you can think of any advantage 
>>> of non-refcounting.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
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