On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:05:02PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Mateusz Loskot wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>With GEOS-3.0.0 initGEOS/finishGEOS do not instantiate/delete > >>a GeometryFactory anymore. Rather the default GeometryFactory > >>is used. This should fix the problem. > > > >What about backport to 2.2.x with ref-counted proposal? > >Such changes could would not affect existing code. > > > >I'd like to repeat that in general, global factory should be replaced > >with shared object (e.g. managed by shared_ptr from Boost or our own > >home-made shared smart pointer). > >static factory can cause problems too: > >http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ctors.html#faq-10.12 > > Mateusz, > > I personally hate static objects of any complexity because I don't > like a lot of randomly ordered stuff happening before main() even > starts. I would much prefer the referenced counted implementation in > 2.2.x and in head. I'm not sure how smart pointers would help since > the functions don't return a handle for the caller to hold.
If we had to add ref-counting I'd like to do it in a widely usable manner. Something like boost's shared_ptr<> but w/out the external requirement. Beside GeometryFactories there might be much more uses for it. --strk; _______________________________________________ geos-devel mailing list geos-devel@geos.refractions.net http://geos.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel
