From: "Russel Blau" russblau@imapmail.org:

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My favorite would be to use @property on both, but it's one more step against backward compatibility.

That would be my favorite, too, but I didn't do it for the very reason you suggest.

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PS: I can work on a patch for this upon request, if needed.

I'll take you up on that offer. :-)

Russ

So, after some time spent checking that eveything (hopefully) works correctly, I've uploaded the patch on sourceforge's tracker[1]. This is quite a huge one, but as long as my tests were complete, it seems ok.

stan.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3010404&group_id=93...