Re: Remove GCObject, GCArray, GCDictionary from base?

[David Ayers]

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.

Cheers,
David