Re: Remove GCObject, GCArray, GCDictionary from base?

[Matt Rice]

--- David Ayers <address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:
> > As far as I know, the garbage collecting classes
> in the base  additions
> > library are used only in gdl2.
> > It would seem to make sense to move themover into
> gdl2 rather than  the
> > base additions library.
> > What do you think?
> 
> Personally I had hoped to remove the use of them in
> GDL2, but it was
> never a high priority.  In fact I don't even really
> know if they
> actually fix the retain cycle issue that they are
> intended to solve in
> our EOModels.  I never wrote any tests as most GDL2
> applications
> wouldn't even notice the difference as they don't
> add / remove models.
> 
> The main application I would worry about here is
> GDL2's DBModeler.  It
> would be great if "we" (read Matt ;-) ) can work out
> a way not to need
> them at all.  Personally I wouldn't mind of they
> were moved into GDL2 in
> the meantime as long as GDL2 didn't make them
> public.
> 
> Alternatively we could create a 'BaseUtilities'
> NATIVE_LIBRARY project
> and have GDL2 depend on that in the meantime.  Then
> people who currently
> may still be using these classes have a migration
> option.
> 

sure, i'm glad about it, and i'll see what i can do,

though when the new base is released maybe we should
plan on doing a follow up release of gdl2 or
something? 

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