On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:46:51PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:

> > Okay (I skipped most of that subthread, since I was away).  It's not clear
> > to me that this is useful -- on a system that hasn't been hacked to bits,
> > it'll be there (otherwise SUNWipkg won't even install).  I'll want this to
> > go away, though, certainly once cherrypy gets properly integrated.
> 
> I have no objections to removing the check completely if so desired.
> 
> Just let me know.

No, leave it in.

> In the case of transaction.py, the open() function is returning a
> particular status to the calling function.
> 
> The calling function is explicitly evaluating the return value and
> then performing exceptions or various other bits of logic based on
> that return value.
> 
> As such, it wasn't appropriate for me to raise an exception there.

Okay, sorry I didn't pick up on that.

> So, in short, it's just doing what it used to. My personal preference
> is to let the caller handle abandon() and return the status since that
> would make it match open()'s behaviour.
> 
> Would that be your desired approach?

I don't really care too much; if you think that'd be cleaner ...

> >> > SUNWpython-cherrypy/Makefile:
> >> >
> >> >  - I wonder if perhaps doing the tarball download higher up, in the main
> >> >    "make install" wouldn't be better -- so that it'll work out of the 
> >> > box,
> >> >    and you could integrate it into "make link" and so on.
> >>
> >> Eventually cherrypy will go away and not be part of the build, so I'm
> >> not certain.
> >
> > Yeah, but we don't have a timeframe on that yet, do we?  Seems like we
> > could be in the current situation for a while.
> 
> True. So what are your expectations then in regards to this wad?

Don't worry about it for now.  If it bugs me enough, I'll do something
about it.

Thanks,
Danek
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