bzr-gedit Roadmap

[Javier Derderian]

>
> Javier Derderian wrote:
> |
> | Hi!
> |
> |
> |     You need to be aware of how it may affect the application's
> |     responsiveness: bzrlib is an synchronous API, meaning that when it
> |     takes a long time to complete a command, it prevents anything else
> |     from running in the same thread.
> |
> |
> | I'm planning to integrate bzr progress indicators in this plugin, and
> that
> | makes the "waiting" much smoother, i think.
> | Anyway, I'll also do some test running bzr commands inside threads
> | to allow gedit to keep working. But since the commands that took
> | loonger (pull, push, etc) have a dialog and that dialog is modal
> | it may not be a bad idea to just work with the progress indicator.
> |
> | --
> | Javier Derderian
> | javierder at gmail.com <mailto:javierder at gmail.com>
> | ---
> | En la Alegría serás Imbatible
>
> I know there are a few places inside bzrlib that are explicitly not
> threadsafe.
> I've encountered it mostly through the ui_factory.get_nested_progress().
> Specifically, it assumes that it grows as a simple stack, and the last
> process
> to be started is the first to call .finished().
>
> A lot of the code is probably thread safe, but the UI code is not. It
> might be
> possible to write your own ui_factory which was thread safe, which would
> then
> not cause this problem.
>
> Just letting you know what I've run into.
>
> John
> =:->
>

Hi!

I've been already playing working with my own ui_factory, taking code from
bzr-gtk own ui_factory and integrating it with my plugin, and it seemed to
work
just fine.
Anyway, i have to do more tests with threads.


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-- 
Javier Derderian
javierder at gmail.com
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En la Alegría serás Imbatible
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