Re: UID constrained to int, good time to refactor?

"Sasvata (Shash) Chatterjee" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.keel.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gene,

> During this time of change with the build system, I'd like to bring up 
> again the fact that the User ID from the DefaultEnvironment is defined 
> as an int.  In my case at least, it is a problem, and I've modified 
> all the keel core code that references it to handle a string 
> (locally). Works great, and works with int's as well.  Would this be a 
> good time to update the changes?  Is there ever going to be a good 
> time for this?  A single sign on authentication service comes to mind 
> that would require a change like this.
>
> I've not switched to the new build system yet(looks awesome btw), as 
> it would break my project, and wanted to test the waters on this again.

I think this is a good change to make, overall.  However, in contrast to 
the build-system changes, which for the most part deal with changes for 
the putting together of the app, this will actually break 
functionality.  So, is there a way we can provide a migration for 
exisitng deployments to ease the pain?  Either way, we should probably 
get it done sooner than later.

Shash

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