[Dev] Re: refcounted

[Morgen Sagen]

So John, it seems like the best way to proceed is to move towards 
modularizing Application.py (see application/Util.py) in such a way 
that there is one and only one place that the repository gets 
initialized, and any script (Chandler, all unit tests, document 
generator, etc.) can make use of that.

~morgen

On Oct 28, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> Like we've discussed several times before, I have no immediate plans 
> to default to refcounted.
> The unit tests don't need pinning since only one view is involved in 
> most of them. RepositoryTestCase.py, lines 44 and 47 is where you 
> could also turn on refcounted by default.
> Removing all the pinning code is at your option as well.
>
> Andi..
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, John Anderson wrote:
>
>> 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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