[elephant-devel] slot-exists-p / slot-exists-p-using-class

[Robert L. Read]

Well, Ian and I are both exhausted (metaphorically.)

It is a rare project that does not release with known bugs.

But 0.6.0.rc1 can serve as well as 0.6.0 for most people, so 
I don't mind using that name --- but I will make a tar file of it,
for the convenience of a hypothetic new user.  If they choose 
not to use class-indexing, they will not experience the known
bugs; it is the unknown once that will be the problem.

But we do have a solid test suite, relatively speaking.

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 23:01 -0500, Waldo Rubinstein wrote:

> How about releasing 0.6.0.rc1 instead? It just doesn't fly well with
> me the fact that a new release is coming out with known bugs. I
> understand your point. The question is, like Ian asked, is it worth
> fixing this bug or re-engineering to closer-to-mop.
> 
> 
> - Waldo
> 
> On Feb 22, 2006, at 10:43 PM, Robert L. Read wrote:
> 
> 
> > Thanks for this large and excellent body of work, Ian.
> > 
> > I agree that we should use closer-to-mop.
> > 
> > However, I am tempted to release 0.6.0 even in the presence of these
> > bugs, 
> > as all of them concern the new functionality that you have added.  I
> > am pretty
> > confident 0.6.0 represents no regression from previous releases, and
> > certainly
> > is better in other ways.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:28 -0500, Ian Eslick wrote: 
> > 
> > > These do not appear to be properly implemented for persistent slots on
> > > any platform.  This may be part of the problem that Andrew, Robert and I
> > > are looking at.  It should be easy to add, but I don't understand why
> > > it's not failing.
> > > 
> > > I also found a couple of small problems I introduced into the tests
> > > accidentally while exploring these bugs.  I have fixed these in my
> > > latest checkin.  If you're working on these bugs, please update:
> > > 
> > > My full status as of this checkin is:
> > > 
> > > Mac OS X 10.4 / ACL 8.0 / BDB -
> > >     Backend: Green 
> > >     Migration: Green
> > > Mac OS X 10.4 / ACL 8.0 / SQL -
> > >     Backend:
> > >     Fails: INDEXING-CHANGE-CLASS (fails due to get-instances-by-value
> > > returning 0 instead of 1 instance)
> > >     Fails: INDEXING-REDEF-CLASS (fails due to get-instances-by-value
> > > returns 2 instead of 1 instance)
> > >     Migration:
> > >     Fails: MIGRATE-IPCLASS (fails due to get-instances-by-value
> > > returning 2 instead of 1)
> > > Mac OS X 10.4 / SBCL 8.0 / BDB
> > >     Backend:
> > >     Fails: INDEXING-REDEF-CLASS (slot not found bug discussed in earlier
> > > e-mail)
> > >     Migration: Green
> > > Mac OS X 10.4 / SBCL 8.0 / SQL
> > >     Backend:
> > >     Fails: INDEXING-REDEF-CLASS (slot not found bug discussed in earlier
> > > e-mail)
> > >     Migration:
> > >     Fails: MIGRATE-IPCLASS (fails due to get-instances-by-value
> > > returning 2 instead of 1)
> > > 
> > > I'm beginning to think that porting over to a MOP compatibility layer
> > > (like closer-to-mop) may be a better course than to continue to patch
> > > the current system if no one can find this with a little more effort.  I
> > > don't have time for at least two weeks to look at this.  I will be
> > > available to answer questions, but not for any significant debugging or
> > > development.
> > > 
> > > Ian
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