> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Adams
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:20 AM
> To: Eric Bezault
> Subject: Comments in KI_BUFFER
>
> I just took a look at this class (I got a Rose Studio
> notification about it, and I didn't recall the name).
>
> At least two of the routines have comments like:
>
> -- TODO: This routine should be deferred, but there is
> -- a bug with ISE Eiffel 5.1.5 and 5.2 in the generated
> -- C code in finalized mode, and having this
> -- routine effective is a workaround.
>
> Does this still apply with 5.7?
I would hope not, but I never checked since then.
Note that there might be other comments like that explaining
workarounds for various compilers and compiler versions.
I will need to do some clean up at some stage. In particular,
I plan to remove the remaining vestiges of VE (as you pointed
out a couple of months ago, there are still some references
to VE laying around). There is indeed very little chances that
VE resurrects from its ashes.
We also need to make a final decision about SE 1.2. It looks
like there is still no sign of life over there. The next
release of ISE will be in June (or May, I don't remember),
and the next release of Gobo will be just before. I was
planning to give SE 1.2 a chance to get back to life say
one month before the release in order to make a decision.
But now that the Gobo bootstrap does not even work with
SE 1.2 (because of UNIX_FILE_INFO for example), I really
wonder why we should wait until then. Why should we keep
the development of the Gobo project in slow gear because
of a compiler that is currently (and possibly forever)
not maintained? Should we decide now that SE 1.2 is not
supported anymore, and let the job to the possible future
maintainers of SE 1.2 to adapt it so that it can compile
the Gobo project? After all, that's what I'm currently doing
with 'gec': I adapt it so that it can compile Eiffel libraries
other than those from Gobo, such as EiffelBase, EiffelVision2,
etc.
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Eric Bezault
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