Added workaround for ROOT-6028 (or ROOT-6054 or ROOT-6073)

https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6028
https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6054
https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6073

From: Marco Clemencic <marco.clemencic@cern.ch>


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.cern.ch/reps/gaudi/Gaudi/trunk@7401 53ecefc3-a64d-0410-9bdf-b8581fa3287e

GaudiPython/GaudiPython/Helpers.h

@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ public:
     return (T*)a;
   }
 
+  // FIXME: (MCl) workaround for ROOT-6028, ROOT-6054, ROOT-6073
+  static StatusCode setPropertyFromString(Property& p, const std::string& s) {
+    return p.fromString(s);
+  }
 };
 
 template PyObject* Helper::toArray(int*,Py_ssize_t);

GaudiPython/doc/release.notes

 Package: GaudiPython
 Package manager : Marco Clemencic
 
+! 2014-02-13 - Marco Clemencic
+ - Added workaround for ROOT-6028...
+   or ROOT-6054 or ROOT-6073.. depending on the point of view.
+   https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6028
+   https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6054
+   https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6073
+
 ! 2014-02-07 - Marco Clemencic
  - Added workaround for ROOT-6032.
    https://sft.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/ROOT-6032

GaudiPython/python/GaudiPython/Bindings.py

@@ -224,7 +224,11 @@ class iProperty(object) :
                 elif hasattr ( value , 'toString' )  : value = value.toString()
                 elif not long  == type( value )      : value = '%s' % value
                 else                                 : value = '%d' % value
-                if prop.fromString( value ).isFailure() :
+                if ROOT6WorkAroundEnabled('ROOT-6028'):
+                    sc = cppyy.gbl.GaudiPython.Helper.setPropertyFromString(prop, value)
+                else:
+                    sc = prop.fromString(value)
+                if sc.isFailure() :
                     raise AttributeError, 'property %s could not be set from %s' % (name,value)
         else :
             if   type(value) == str            : value = '"%s"' % value # need double quotes