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Re: [StGIT PATCH 3/5] Create a git.Branch class as ancestor of stack.Stack

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CMCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2008, 22:16 UTC
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On 07/06/2008, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
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> On 2008-06-06 09:44:37 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>  > 2008/6/5 Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>:
> > > We'll have to be watchful against attempts to create objects other
> > > than via the officially designated factories, though. Python
> > > doesn't really have any mechanisms that help us here.
> >
> > If you really want enforcing this, it can probably be done by
> > hacking __new__ and __init__.
>
> No, I reckon you're right -- it's overkill. StGit is small enough that
>  we can probably enforce the relevant restrictions by hand.

Hidden plan - once the new stgit.lib.git module is complete, we can advertise it as a stand-alone object-oriented Git wrapper for Python :-). At that point, we can think about enforcing the factory mechanism.

-- 
Catalin
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Message 17 of 28 in “Various updates to the new infrastructure”
  1. 0/5 Various updates to the new infrastructureCatalin Marinas, Jun 4, 2008
  2. 1/5 Allow stack.patchorder.all to return hidden patchesCatalin Marinas, Jun 4, 2008
  3. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008
  4. Catalin MarinasJun 5, 2008
  5. 2/5 Rename Repository.head to Repository.head_refCatalin Marinas, Jun 4, 2008
  6. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008
  7. Catalin MarinasJun 5, 2008
  8. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008
  9. Catalin MarinasJun 5, 2008
  10. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008
  11. 3/5 Create a git.Branch class as ancestor of stack.StackCatalin Marinas, Jun 4, 2008
  12. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008
  13. Catalin MarinasJun 5, 2008
  14. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008
  15. Catalin MarinasJun 6, 2008
  16. Karl HasselströmJun 7, 2008
  17. Catalin MarinasJun 8, 2008
  18. David AguilarJun 9, 2008
  19. Sverre RabbelierJun 9, 2008
  20. Karl HasselströmJun 9, 2008
  21. 4/5 Add stack creation and initialisation support to lib.StackCatalin Marinas, Jun 4, 2008
  22. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008
  23. Catalin MarinasJun 5, 2008
  24. Karl HasselströmJun 7, 2008
  25. 5/5 Add stack creation and deletion support to the new infrastructureCatalin Marinas, Jun 4, 2008
  26. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008
  27. Catalin MarinasJun 5, 2008
  28. Karl HasselströmJun 5, 2008

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