Re: User interface thread

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Eugene wrote:
>
> Shutting the lyntin down is a bit messy and has some races, so I 
> consider clarifying threading issues a bit. The code in question is 
> unnecessarily hairy by now.

In regards to the first sentence, I haven't seen any issues with the 
existing UIs.  So while I acknowledge there could be race conditions 
involved with exiting, I haven't seen any evidence of them.

I think if I were to re-re-rewrite Lyntin, I'd do it with Twisted and not 
use threads at all.


> I guess, if any UI module can tell it wants the main thread, and the 
> engine has no problems with it, then we could just as well run any UI in 
> the main thread. I hardly can imagine a toolkit that objects against 
> running in the main thread.

Well, if there is an answer to that question, it'd hopefully be in the 
mailing list archives.  I'm pretty sure I didn't architect it that way 
arbitrarily, but I don't remember more than that.

/will


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