[Dev] Re: refcounted

John Anderson john at osafoundation.org
Thu Oct 28 11:38:04 PDT 2004


Hi Andi:

Let me know if you plan to default to refcounted -- if so I'll be able 
to remove the remaining SetPinnned code in Chandler without breaking the 
unit tests.

John

Ted Leung wrote:

> +1
>
> On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Morgen Sagen wrote:
>
>> I also agree that we should just have the repository default to the 
>> new refcounted mode.
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2004, at 6:59 AM, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>>
>>> 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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