cast_object_to bug / PerlQt cvs compilation (Was Re: [Kde-bindings] [Bug 71316] QtRuby : Segmentation fault when loading Qt)

[Alexander Kellett]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:56:54AM +0000, Richard Dale wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:43, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> > oh, aaah. so thats why the constant wasn't working,
> > i was still trying to debug this last night but got
> > no further. i'm making these sorts of errors really
> > frequently so i'm gonna stick something in there
> > to print a list of matched classes on such failures
> Good idea, but only do that if a suitable debug flag is set, so the user has 
> some control.

good point

> I removed it because I thought it improved the error messages. What is the 
> difference between qtruby indicating a method is missing, and the normal ruby 
> Object error - what do you mean by 'real error'? That should only be for 
> subclasses of Qt:: which don't have non-Qt behaviour to preserve, not all 
> ruby classes.

qtruby catches all missing variables in subclasses, therefore the 
user sees "couldn't resolve method" instead of "you mistyped blah" :)

> I've no idea why we have to put examples in a branch, rather than straight in 
> HEAD, when the project isn't built be default. What's the branch called it - 
> I'll have a look?

i'd prefer to keep my commits out of the main version to keep
coolo's work down - i guess he is tracking all changes and
tagging important ones...

the branch name is : more_examples_branch

ciao,
Alex

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