[VO27] - The Visual Objects Repository Code
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>As VO developers know, much of Visual Objects is written in Visual Objects.
ok
>This was another area, that drastically need attention.
Taking in account that "{VO26 has tens of thousands of errors}" [1],
every application created with VO26 "drastically needs attention".
>All of the code that makes up your Visual Objects 2.7 Repository
>has been cleaned up, and run thought the Visual Objects
>compiler at the highest warnings.
Major library-code-cleanups can critically influence stability of
existing applications (problems when migrating VO26-sources to VO27).
There are already [possibly unnecessary] problems when migrating
VO25-sources to VO26.
>Many potential bugs we discovered in the course of doing this.
A warning is not an error.
A potential bug is not an error.
Correcting potential bugs is critical to the system-behaviour,
especially if the intention of the original-developers is unknown.
One example: a compiler-warning can be raised at a point, where the
core-developer does some tricky (and possibly undocumented)
workaround.
>As a result of this exercise new tools for development had to
>be written.
I don't understand this.
The Task: correct potential(!) bugs which are reported due to a higher
compiler warning-level setting.
Why there is a need for tools?
Assuming support- and refactoring-classes: I don't think that a few
support-classes or refactoring-classes are worth to be noted as tools.
>The result of these tools, you now will have the code that makes
>up your system repository delivered to you on the same CD as
>the product itself.
Again i don't understand.
The Task: Publishing the Source-Code on which the repository is based.
Why there is a need for tools?
Or is this 'tool' a simple batch-file, which extracts and copies the
public parts of the source-codes to a folder?
>No more, Repo & SDK out of sync.
Very nice.
'Transforming' to commonly known wording:
Repo => means here: Libraries
SDK => means here: Source-Code (of Libraries)
out-of-sync => means here: wrong version of source-code included
So we got this simple sentence:
=> The libraries included with VO27 will come with correct
source-code.
And this is of course a... totally obvious basic 'feature'.
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[Background information: The libraries included with VO26 came with
source-code, too. For the bad luck of the developers which came in
touch with this source-codes: they have the wrong version ("Repo & SDK
out of sync").]
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[1] - {VO26 has tens of thousands of errors}
source: [VO27] - Has been completely re-compiled in Microsoft Visual
Studio 7.1
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