On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 16:58 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 14:34 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:16 +0100, Jules Colding wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >What is the idea behind this magical string? Shouldn't we use an orb > > >command line option instead? > > > > > >Please yell if the following patch shouldn't be committed. > > > > /me yells. > > > > Whether or not to use MT-safe ORB should be under programmer control, > > not the user. What happens if the user activates MT ORB but the > > application is not prepared to handle threads? You get nasty bugs, > > that's for sure. > > Not really a good argument. It is always possible (and I would say > prudent) for the programmer to scan the command line before calling > ORB_init(). That is really the only way to ensure that the ORB is > initiated with the exact set of arguments that the programmer wants.
and, BTW, we could always introduce the command line argument but keep the magic string and emit a warning if there is a concern of application compatibility. Is that a scenario that you could live with? Best regards, jules _______________________________________________ orbit-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orbit-list
