Rob Shortt wrote:
> I agree, threading is a PITA, I dislike them too. I would like to see
> Freevo get rid of all multi-threading.
Maybe, maybe not. I just had a little talk with a co-worker who wrote
a notifier loop for Python. And Freevo can't use this loop and neither
can use twisted for a very simple reason: a main loop like this
requires that the called function returns very quick. This is not true
for a directory building: create mmpython cache, build the item list,
show the skin. Each of this three steps can take a long time. For a
very big directory of photos and a fully cached Freevo, I still need
about 3 seconds to display the folder. That is too much.
Maybe we need some sort of safe threading for long time jobs like
this. Example: mmpython cache this dir and call be back when you are
finished. This can be done in a thread. Maybe must be done. My
co-worker (also using Freevo) will look at our main loop and try to
find some solutions. After that, I guess we need some bottles of good
wine to design a main loop with threads for long calculations.
Dischi
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