On 02/16/2012 05:50 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 15.02.2012 21:18, Greg Stein wrote: >> And thinking on that: how does the client do inheritance in a >> mixed-revision working copy? D@10 inherits props from P, but the >> client has P@5. If there are changes in P@7, then the inherited >> properties a likely wrong for D@10. > > Reading this thread really makes me wonder a bit... How can anyone even > contemplate implementing inheritable properties on the client side? A > server-side implementation of (strictly versioned!) inheritable props > would not require any new logic on the client, and it's the only way to > make such a thing work without expecting weird behaviour with different > client versions. I'd have thought that the mergeinfo saga would have > been enough of a reality check. > > Regarding upwards searches and "bounded reads" ... anyone who believes > reading a datastore is cheap should try to write a fast, data-intensive > GAE application. :) > > IOW, I completely agree with Bill Tutt's assesment and Greg's arguments. > Please try to understand the issues before assuming things.
Perhaps if those boasting of said understanding would invest the energy to take this conversation a bit farther than merely "that won't work", and maybe explore the "but this might..." space a little more deeply and publicly, the ambient level of understanding all 'round would increase, and gosh, we might even see some real progress on this feature. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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