Recursive QofBooks

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Aug 12 11:53:47 EDT 2011


Hi,

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> Muslim discovered a couple of functions in QofSession.c,
> qof_instance_copy_coll_r and qof_instance_copy_one_r, along with a
> companion test src/engine/test/test-recursive.c which seems intended
> to support a hierarchy of books. Given the way we treat books, this
> seems to me to be a seriously dumb idea. It seems to have been added
> in mid-2005 by Neil Williams as part of a conversion to Gnome 2. Does
> anyone recall the rationale behind it? Is there any reason not to
> remove it as useless cruft?

I suspect some of these are left over from the Qof Merge code that Neil
was working on as part of the QSF import.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek
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