Re: GNOME 2.0 Platform Alpha Deadline - Sep 26, 2001

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard redhat com>]

Bill Gribble wrote:

> On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 14:53, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>
> > > Various things use it, including a couple of applets in
> > > gnome-applets. However, gnome-http has a very low-level and not so
> > > well integrated API.
> > Also, no one has been hacking on it.
>
> Well, speak for yourself :)  We found that with a small amount of
> wrapper code the gnome-http API was sufficient.  HTTP isn't that
> complicated.  
>
> Gnucash has wrapped it up a little to do asynchronous i/o a la libwww;
> it's not perfect (still blocks at odd times) but it's the best you can
> do short of another thread.  Lightweight, works, not changing all the
> time.  Nothing wrong with any of that.

Yeah, I've seen non-blocking patches for connect(), read() and write() 
at various times but I doubt they have been committed.  "It's just a big 
state machine."

--Chris

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