[buckminster-dev] Re: Problems getting started with Headless Buckminster

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,
> ...  I also do not
> think it is quite as simple as you think.  This class is itself a base
> class, and suddenly wrapping all of our local and remote resources in
> another class during a compare operation is not nearly as simple as it
> seems.
Right. I did a quick survey in order to determine just how complex the 
problem is with the thought that if it was a simple enough, I would 
submit a patch. However, since the class, as you say, is very frequently 
used (as an IStorage) and since Eclipse is full of constructs like this one:

if (sa instanceof IEncodedStreamContentAccessor) {
    try {
        encoding= ((IEncodedStreamContentAccessor) sa).getCharset();
    } catch (Exception e) {
    }
}

I tend to agree with you. An impact analysis is hard to do and the fix 
is not trivial. Perhaps the people that originally submitted the change 
are the ones best suited to come up with a solution?

> Assuming you do not plan to work on a patch for Subclipse, you should
> probably file an issue in our issue tracker so that this does not get
> lost.
OK. Issue added:

http://subclipse.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=583

Kind Regards,
Thomas Hallgren