[TransWarp] FYI: Coming refactorings, Builder interface changes

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:41 PM 12/29/01 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

>Of these changes, the change to remove the 'parents' tuple chain from the 
>API's is likely to be the most disruptive, unless for some reason you 
>can't use weak references.  To date I have not had a need for any Builder 
>object to derive from a type that didn't support weak references, so I 
>don't expect this to be a problem.  However, I will try to implement this 
>in such a way that you can use something other than weak references, if 
>you must.

The above was poorly phrased.  I meant to say that although removing 
'parents' would be disruptive, it would also be a highly beneficial change 
for people creating custom builders, unless for some reason you can't use 
weak references.  Sorry for any confusion, there...  :)