[sword-devel] [bt-devel] Bibletime 2.0.alpha3 FTBFS with sword 1.6.0RC1 library

Matthew Talbert ransom1982 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 03:23:07 MST 2009


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen
<eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
> Quoting Manfred Bergmann <bergmannmd at web.de>:
>
>> So I need to subclass InstallMgr now?
>> Hmm, not sure I like it, means more code an an additional class just to
>> return a true here.
>
> This is what I tried to explain in an earlier post. I didn't know that
> people use instmgr without subclassing. Now when they do, it's better to
> have both the setter method and the virtual checker method.
>

We also use InstallMgr without subclassing. Frankly, I don't see how
the virtual method will make it any more likely that frontends will
prompt the user. We already warn the user, so having this method at
all seems redundant.

Matthew



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