Re: gnome-metadata

[Mike Sangrey <mike sojurn lns pa us>]

someone said:
> Thread-safety for the gnome-libs in general would be nice to have.

Elliot said:
I'd better ask the duh question: "How will this thread safety
make GNOME be better?" 

An appropriate question, too!

Threading is a technology that enables developers to structure their programs 
in a particular way.  It really is an enabling (and if used correctly) a 
simplifying technique.

The bottom line is sort of a duh answer:  "It empowers people."

It also protects you from wasting all that time finding out where that bug is 
in a threaded program that uses gnome-libs.  This is what we old-duh-ers call, 
"protection from future-duh."

:-)
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Mike Sangrey
mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
Lancaster, Pa.
       There is no 'do' in faith, everywhere present within it is 'done'.