Re: BonoboGenericFactory for GNOME 2

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:

> Martin Baulig wrote:
> 
> > ii) if we want to make BonoboGenericFactory a BonoboObject to make it
> >     more easy to derive from it and to make it more consistent with the
> >     rest of Bonobo, then I actually see a way to do this with a little
> >     change in OAF and a little change in BonoboObject.
> >
> > So, let's assume we want to do it because of (ii).
> >
> > Here's how I think it can be done:
> >
> > 1.) First of all, we need to ask Maciej to either rename or remove the
> >     `ref' and `unref' methods in GNOME::ObjectFactory (from a `grep -r'
> >     in oaf, they don't seem to be used at all).
> >
> > 2.) After that, we create a Bonobo::GenericFactory which derives from
> >     both GNOME::ObjectFactory and Bonobo::Unknown
> >
> > 3.) Then, we need to add a way to override the vepv to BonoboObject.
> 
> Why should we use multiple inheritance? Why not simply derive the
> ObjectFactory from Unknown?

Well, that'd mean moving Bonobo::Unknown into OAF.

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