[Yum-devel] yumBase using properties

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 12:44 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> 
> > It might be best to have the logic to see if the field is already
> > populated live outside of the do* methods, so that their behaviour is
> > not changed.
> 
> We almost certainly want to do this.
> 
> > Can the new do* methods all be _do*?
> 
> Or maybe _get? :)

or maybe we can change their name every few hours b/c it won't matter
much! :)

> 
> > Lastly, how about marking the existing do* methods as deprecated? :)
> 
> Well, they have to exist in some form or another -- direct calls of them
> probably won't be needed in The Future (tm), but the _getter will still
> need to call them. 

that's the fget'er, duh. :)

> 
> > I love this though. It will make a lot of the code look so much nicer.
> 
> Agreed

You should agree. You were the one who said yesterday "maybe we should
make these properties so we don't have to call self.doSackSetup() before
using it"

:)

-sv