Gerald Combs wrote:
That's correct. Checking for updates would be pretty easy if we could
connect to the server, issue a request, and feed the response to
read_prefs_file(). It'd be even easier if we could do so from a thread
instead of a separate process.
And probably less memory consuming :-)
In regard to Ulf's comment about threads not working well with GTK+ 2.4,
it looks like that's still the case and won't change any time soon. The
threads section of the GDK reference on developer.gnome.org says:
"Unfortunately the above holds with the X11 backend only. With the Win32
backend, GDK calls should not be attempted from multiple threads at all."
There's also a bug entry at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60620 that's been marked
WONTFIX with the recommendation of using idle/timer callbacks instead of
threads for display code.
Are you already working on this?
I had a look at the cygwin setup program, as they (depending on a user
setting) use the internet access from Internet Explorer to load files
from the internet.
That has the great advantage that this is working well with a proxy, if
the proxy settings of IE is set correct.
I've also started to write a proposal how a file content could look like
to update things - it needs some more polishing before I'll send it to
this list (to reduce a lot of discussion by providing a clean proposal
the first time). My thought was also to use the syntax of the
preferences file :-)
Regards, ULFL
