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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:46:55 +0200
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain.wallez@anyware-tech.com>
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Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:

> On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 20:36 Europe/Rome, Berin Loritsch wrote:
>
>> Anyone have a logical view of how the Treebuilder is supposed to 
>> work?  It would definitely help me in refactoring things.  As it is 
>> now, the Treebuilder is tightly integrated with the ECM, so it is 
>> something that won't work right away...  I am just trying to get to a 
>> place where I can compile 2.2 so that my testcases will run and I can 
>> verify what I am doing works.
>
>
> Sylvain knows this and, AFAIK, he's one of the few (only?) that does.
>
> Which is also something that I'm particularely comfortable with, even 
> if this is not clearly Sylvain's fault if what he writes works as 
> expected and nobody has to go there and fix it ;-) 


[I guess you meant "I'm *not* particularely comfortable with"]

Erm... How should I understand that? Is this an invitation to write 
buggy code to force others to jump in? Well... community-wise, this is 
an interesting approach, and I even remember that you used it with the 
build system. I should give it a try ;-P

> But a description of the internals of the tree processor would be 
> helpful not only for migration for also for future reference 
> (refactor? cleanup? profile? whatever) 


Sure. See my answer to Daniel's post for an in-depth explanation.

Sylvain

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