Changeset 473299f in Lumiera

Timestamp:

2026-03-20T23:51:40Z (5 weeks ago)

Author:

Ichthyostega <prg@…>

Branches:

dev/play

Children:

7bae52d

Parents:

0438571

git-author:

Ichthyostega <prg@…> (20/03/26 22:39:10)

git-committer:

Ichthyostega <prg@…> (20/03/26 23:51:40)

Message:

OutputSlot: attempt to address deeply rooted structural problems

This changeset attempts to breach into the implementation design of OutputSlot
(while largely retaining the API and the »Output Slot Protocol«).

While the actual problem that brought me to this point can be traced back to some
rather obvious mistake, namely to conflate the BufferProvider used as
backing implementation with a BufferProvider used as front-end API,
creating the new connections to use an OutputBufferProxy unveils some
further long-standing structural mismatch; notably this leads to the
difficulties to get the lifecylce management of OutputSlot and DataSink
under control.

So I remove one entire level from the implementation,
in a bold move to realign the design with the prospective usage pattern.

Obviously, this breaks a lot of further code, and I need to rewire
the Allocation implementation altogether, and provide a new functor based
implementation for DataSink

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