[Amarok] Fix potential crash (dereferencing 0-pointer) with

[Dan Meltzer]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Maximilian Kossick
> <maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> regarding that comment, what about the major refactoring that we
>> discussed at the dev spring in Berlin, i.e. adding a thin wrapper
>> around the meta classes that has to be created on the stack? Are we
>> actually going to implement that? If yes, any suggestions when?
>
> I think that would be really good. Would be lots (lots!) of work, but
> we could do it in a Git branch, and if it takes a lot of time, then so
> be it. One day we could merge it back into master. Our semi-big
> "seconds -> milliseconds" migration has proven (on a smaller scale)
> that this can be done with Git, I would say.
>
> It's a bit sad that we have already invested so much time in fixing
> all these 0-pointer crashes, but I guess one can only learn by trial
> and error. Better late than never :)Etc...

I have a branch that takes a different approach (always returning a
DefaultAlbum/DefaultArtist/default*).  This issue is that it requires
so many changes to so many things that it's almost impossible to do it
in a seperate branch because every commit leads to conflicts and it's
a pain in the ass to have to solve them all.
>
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