Re: [Fresco-devel] kit destruction not informing the server?

Nick Lewycky wrote:
> Should the server even be loading all of the kits at startup? Couldn't 
> they just be loaded on demand? Making the server store the prototype and 
> having each ServerContext clone it seems a bit unusual. You make it 
> sound as if this bug could be fixed by ensuring that the server loads 
> the PSDrawingKit on startup along with the other Kits... if that's 
> correct, it would be the best fix for the release.

but the server *does* load the PSDrawingKit on startup.
As I said, the load-on-startup is needed in order to take advantage of
the prototype pattern. How else would we be able to load the GLDrawingKit
(which is of type "Fresco::DrawingKit3D") when we ask for a
"Fresco::DrawingKit" ? Somewhere both types need to be compared, i.e. the
'is a' test needs to be performed.
Don't worry, kits are not very expensive, they don't hold a lot of state,
and I don't expect them to proliferate either, at least not in numbers that
should worry us.

> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>  > BTW, why isn't this in the bug tracker? :-)
> 
> Because I thought we weren't supposed to file Real Bugs in it until 
> Monday. For some reason. And I can't even find the post I thought 
> supported my position. Instead I find Stefan Seefeld saying "I believe 
> the tool is getting reasonably useable to officially start using it." So 
> I guess that makes the answer to your question, "because I'm an idiot?" ;-)

no. While it *is* useable, there are all sorts of (small) bugs turning up
that I'd rather fix before we do that. But it seems we now are at a point
where we don't need to reinitialise the database any more, so we may as well
start using it.

But then don't be upset if you find a freshly installed database with no
data in it at some point. :-)
(I really hope I'll sort it all out tomorrow...)

Regards,
		Stefan