Re: [Orbit-python-list] Latest commits

[Jason T. <ta...@li...>]

> Yup.  Quick tests show zero leak.  Thanks a bundle!  I'll have to

Good news.  Now all the changes I made over the weekend (massive
changes with the server side especially) have introduced other leaks.
I'll track these down today or tomorrow.

> update my main project since I relied on the ._servant attribute hack,
> but thanks to my limitless faith in encapsulation, there should be
> three lines to change in my code, and not three thousand.

More code breaking changes are still to come, unfortunately.  The
good news is the updates bring us closer to compliance with the spec,
and that the changes needed shouldn't be too drastic.  Such are the
perils of working with non-stable releases, I guess. :)  

After all is said and done, we should meet the spec as closely as possible.
Currently both inheritance and delegation is supported for implementations.
I interpreted the spec to say that inheritance is required while
delegation is optional.  Also, where things the spec is not too clear
on (such as _GlobalIDL), I'll copy omniORBpy.  At least then we'll be
as compatible as possible.

>   And since 1. the code is apparently liable to change a bit these
> days and 2. I've been working more on ORBit-Python than on Real Work
> these days, I'll probably be rather quiet on this front this week or

Just as well, I'll probably be tearing the whole thing apart. :)

> a bug or another leak, though :-)  That's the problem you'll have,
> since my server will have to handle about a million objects and about
> a million requests a day, any memory leak is forbidden, so I'll submit
> patches and/or bug you until the last leak is dead.

Interesting.  So what exactly are you using ORBit-Python for? 

>   Speaking of patches, I suggest you close the appropriate patches
> from the Sourceforge page, so as not to confuse people who might be
> tempted to apply them on the CVS version.

Yeah, I hadn't forgotten about that, just kept putting it off. :)  Thanks 
for the reminder.

Jason.