more swig trickery: automaticall free the pool, add a disown method

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/doc/libsolv-bindings.3 b/doc/libsolv-bindings.3
index 7a9cf54..87e949a 100644
--- a/doc/libsolv-bindings.3
+++ b/doc/libsolv-bindings.3
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 .\"     Title: Libsolv-Bindings
 .\"    Author: [see the "Author" section]
 .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.0 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\"      Date: 04/03/2014
+.\"      Date: 04/04/2014
 .\"    Manual: LIBSOLV
 .\"    Source: libsolv
 .\"  Language: English
 .\"
-.TH "LIBSOLV\-BINDINGS" "3" "04/03/2014" "libsolv" "LIBSOLV"
+.TH "LIBSOLV\-BINDINGS" "3" "04/04/2014" "libsolv" "LIBSOLV"
 .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
 .\" * Define some portability stuff
 .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ my \fI$pool\fR \fB= solv::Pool\->new()\fR;
 .RE
 .\}
 .sp
-Create a new pool instance\&. In most cases you just need one pool\&.
+Create a new pool instance\&. In most cases you just need one pool\&. Note that the returned object "owns" the pool, i\&.e\&. if the object is freed, the pool is also freed\&. You can use the disown method to break this ownership relation\&.
 .SS "ATTRIBUTES"
 .sp
 .if n \{\
@@ -533,7 +533,22 @@ Make the addfileprovides method only add files from the standard locations (i\&.
 .RE
 .\}
 .sp
-Free a pool\&. This is currently done with a method instead of relying on reference counting or garbage collection because it\(cqs hard to track every reference to a pool\&.
+Force a free of the pool\&. After this call, you must not access any object that still references the pool\&.
+.sp
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+\fBvoid disown()\fR
+\fI$pool\fR\fB\->disown()\fR;
+\fIpool\fR\fB\&.disown()\fR
+\fIpool\fR\fB\&.disown()\fR
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.sp
+Break the ownership relation betwen the binding object and the pool\&. After this call, the pool will not get freed even if the object goes out of scope\&. This also means that you must manually call the free method to free the pool data\&.
 .sp
 .if n \{\
 .RS 4
diff --git a/doc/libsolv-bindings.txt b/doc/libsolv-bindings.txt
index e8c4eb9..5a65235 100644
--- a/doc/libsolv-bindings.txt
+++ b/doc/libsolv-bindings.txt
@@ -201,8 +201,10 @@ Repositories, Dependencies, each indexed by Ids.
 	pool = solv.Pool()
 	pool = Solv::Pool.new()
 
-Create a new pool instance. In most cases you just need
-one pool.
+Create a new pool instance. In most cases you just need one pool.
+Note that the returned object "owns" the pool, i.e. if the object is 
+freed, the pool is also freed. You can use the disown method to
+break this ownership relation.
 
 === ATTRIBUTES ===
 
@@ -311,9 +313,18 @@ generates.
 	pool.free()
 	pool.free()
 
-Free a pool. This is currently done with a method instead of relying on
-reference counting or garbage collection because it's hard to track every
-reference to a pool.
+Force a free of the pool. After this call, you must not access any object
+that still references the pool.
+
+	void disown()
+	$pool->disown();
+	pool.disown()
+	pool.disown()
+
+Break the ownership relation betwen the binding object and the pool. After
+this call, the pool will not get freed even if the object goes out of
+scope. This also means that you must manually call the free method to free
+the pool data.
 
 	void setdebuglevel(int level)
 	$pool->setdebuglevel($level);