FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: [openbeos] Re: BNetAddress update -- a question.

[Scott Mansfield <thephantom@xxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday, Sep 22, 2002, at 12:48 America/Los_Angeles, Philippe Houdoin 
wrote:
> .I don't think we should support backward compatibility here.
> Who ever call BNet*::GetImpl() methods of the BeOS Net Kit C++ classes
> ???

Nobody that I know of.  :-)

> Dropping Nettle-wrapping compatibility is not required, I guess.
>
> If you have give a look (and I hope you did, as Network team leader ;-)
> ) at current
> uncomplete but yet not totally empty that the GetImpl() methods, which
> we *have* to
> implement as they're public, just return NULL:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/open-beos/current/
> headers/os/net/NetAddress.h?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-
> markup
>
> "No Nettle backward compatibility".

Yes, I see that now.  Interesting, I keep my local copy up-to-date via 
CVS but I don't have the 'net' directory under headers--I'll toss my 
copy of the tree and re-check it out, that's probably how I missed it.  
Aargh!

> Or did I miss something here?

And now that I look like a complete idiot, let's see how much deeper a 
hole I can dig for myself.

No, you did not miss anything.  I think that between Michael, you, and 
myself we lost synchronization.  I am the "code finisher" for the OBOS 
project, so the responsibility for notifying parties involved and 
synchronizing tasks falls squarely upon my shoulders.  My typical 
workflow should be: get task from Michael, contact team lead and let 
them know what I'm doing, complete said task.  Lather, rinse, and 
repeat as necessary.

A little history is probably in order: I had been taking direction from 
Michael with respects to programming tasks; my first task (back around 
July I think) was the four BNetXXX classes in the network kit.  This 
was when David was team lead.

<time passes>

We discover that someone else is already writing these.  Oops.

<more time passes>

We discover that whomever was working on the network kit lost interest, 
so I get to pick up and start writing the classes again.

This oversight in not contacting you is completely my doing.  For that, 
I apologize.

Now, would you like me to finish off the aforementioned classes?  :-)

Cheers,
Scott