On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > There was a reason behind it though. With the old queue based approach >> sometimes there was no way to get the tasks connected properly without using >> named pipes. With the stack based approach I think it's always possible to >> connect tasks without using named pipes. >> > > It seems you're right. With the stack approach, anything is possible ;-) > any plans to drop named pipes then? > > Bye > Frederik > > Why drop them? They're optional, they work, they make connecting some tasks unambiguous and some people undoubtedly use them in scripts. I don't think they're a maintenance headache (they're contained to a small portion of the code, and their presence is transparent to the code for individual pipeline tasks), so no reason not to keep them, right? Karl
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