[Kst] Re: branches/work/kst/portto4/kst

[Barth Netterfield]

I can look again into non-deleted objects.  I have some ideas about what is
going on.


On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp at gmx.net> wrote:

> On 07.01.2011 13:05, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > The BLASTpol flight is over, and I can finally stick my head above water.
> >
> > Could you give a quick summary of the changes you made to the pointer
> > system?  Has it been merged into trunk?  Is it still under development?
>
> All changes are in the branch only, and I've stopped further working on
> this branch because a complete external ref-count seems to complex, and
> changing the SharePtr implementation that it uses QShared-/QWeakPointer
> makes SharePtr thread-safe but will not have much other improvements.
>
> And when we have problems with not deleted objects one has to go deep
> into the ObjectStore/use-flag code which is another task.
>
> Maybe we could merge back the QShared-/QWeakPointer implementation, but
> at the current state PluginInterface already inherits QObject (then
> we could everywhere use qobject_cast) and then all plugins must not
> include QObject and we also have to make the destructor public for each
> plugin. We will also lose binary compatibility of the plugins of older
> Kst versions.
>
> But I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. The code is not lost, it's
> in the branch, and maybe we have other or better ideas later, or will
> have real reasons to use the code in the branch.
>
> You could have a look at it, I've also posted the diff to the list,
> maybe you have an other idea how it could improve Kst code base.
>
> Peter
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C. Barth Netterfield
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