Re: Libification project (SoC)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 17, 2007, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703171054580.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550703170004n3ab9075euf66a9e6dd56040d7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

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> On 3/17/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > The common solution for your problem _is_ to use threads.
> 
> I would say, the common solution to have non blocking libgit is to use 
> threads in the tool linked with libgit.

Yes, that's what I tried to say.

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> > And you have to admit that _only_ viewers would need asynchronous 
> > access anyway. I doubt that other tools -- which could take their 
> > advantage of a libgit -- would need such an access.
> 
> Yes, and you have to admit ;-)  that viewers are the tools that mostly 
> will use libgit.

I hope that there are many more users. _And_ not all viewers want to do the display asynchronously. For example, statplot takes the time it takes.

Ciao, Dscho