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From: Tobias McNulty <tob...@caktusgroup.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:14:56 -0400
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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > It seems better to stress thread-safety dos and don'ts in the
> > documentation.
>
> Without wanting to beat a dead horse, I concur.  Fundamentally we need
> to have a little faith in your users, the admin has the exact same
> pattern of a single instance, and we haven't done anything special
> there.
>

+1

The thread safety issues certainly aren't insignificant, but I think they
can be solved by a big fat warning in the documentation.  I do prefer this
to the potentially false sense of security that copying the object may
involve.

Tobias
-- 
Tobias McNulty, Managing Partner
Caktus Consulting Group, LLC
http://www.caktusgroup.com

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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Alex Gaynor <spa=
n dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:alex.gay...@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank=
">alex.gay...@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail=
_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:=
1ex">


<div><div></div><div>On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Vinay Sajip &lt;<a hre=
f=3D"mailto:vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk" target=3D"_blank">vinay_sa...@yahoo.co=
.uk</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; It seems better to stress thread-safety dos and don&#39;ts in the<br>
&gt; documentation.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Without wanting to beat a dead horse, I concur. =A0Fundamentall=
y we need<br>
to have a little faith in your users, the admin has the exact same<br>
pattern of a single instance, and we haven&#39;t done anything special<br>
there.<font color=3D"#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><div><br></div>=
<p>+1</p><p>The thread safety issues certainly aren&#39;t insignificant, bu=
t I think they can be solved by a big fat warning in the documentation. =A0=
I do prefer this to the potentially false sense of security that copying th=
e object may involve.</p>


<p>Tobias<br>--=A0<br>Tobias McNulty, Managing Partner<br>Caktus Consulting=
 Group, LLC<br><a href=3D"http://www.caktusgroup.com" target=3D"_blank">htt=
p://www.caktusgroup.com</a></p>

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