Re: [Swig-devel] perl5 directors

[Robert S. <ta...@tr...>]

	The work on my branch now fires destructors when the last Perl
side holder of a wrapped object lets go.  The code is a bit awkward but
I will continue to clean up the code, build out test cases, and address
bugs that are revealed.

						-Robert
 
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:07:52AM -0800, Robert Stone wrote:
> Hi William,
> 
> 	Sadly, even non-director object lifetimes are not in a good
> place on the branch.  I've been trying to solve the whole thing at once,
> and getting somewhat overwhelmed I guess.  If it's a worthwhile
> intermediate step to recover non-director object lifetimes as they
> existed on trunk, that should be quick to work out.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 07:27:34AM +0000, William S Fulton wrote:
> >
> > The object lifetime and ownership is hard to get right for directors and  
> > that can be improved over time. If you think that there will not be any  
> > non-director usage changes in the future and the object lifetime of  
> > non-directors is okay, then consider merging to trunk for 2.0.0.
> >