Re: [dylan] Stream locking (was: Method combinations as a design pattern for locking)

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Bruce Mitchener <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think the key steps to moving forward with this are:
>>
>>
>>    - Try to identify why this change to stream locking was made in the
>>    first place and what changes will have to be made to applications as a
>>    result of this change. (Given that it was Hannes and Andreas, I'm assuming
>>    it was either DUIM/Gtk+ or Network Night Vision.)
>>    - Make the changes for the 2014.1 release and make sure that we
>>    explain them clearly.
>>
>> I think that having locking in format-out and force-out will be
>> sufficient for many people.
>>
>
> No updates to documentation or release notes yet, but perhaps this can go
> into 2013.2:
>
>     https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/compare/stream-locking-changes
>
> I have a 3 stage bootstrap in progress with these changes, but I don't
> expect issues since dylan-compiler is single-threaded.
>

A couple of fixes later, added release notes and so on...

Pull request: https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/pull/621

I ran the sample code from bug 4004 in Bugzilla and it is fine now.

Anyone want to pull the trigger and merge it?

 - Bruce

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