Re: redmond event loop

Joshua N Pritikin <[email protected]> writes:
>On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:57:46PM -0500, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
>> It depends how much abstraction you want.  There is little overlap
>> between the two.  Event is mostly a programmer friendly wrapper around
>> stdio/PerlIO.  stdio/PerlIO are mostly C APIs.
>
>Also, i shouldn't neglect to mention that a major goal for Event is to
>be the common API to which event driven modules/libraries are written. 
>
>The more modules which are written to Event specs, the more easily
>developers can glue applications together without being forced to add
>lots of glue code.
>
>Event has been well received, but so far there is no Event port of LWP,
>Tk, 

Tk needs to call the thing from C mostly, and has a lot of weird little 
corners. (And when I was "interested" Event wasn't stable, now it is 
I have other things top of my interest pile.)

>or CORBA.  No doubt there are other popular libraries without Event
>support too.
-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons