Hello,
> Yes, I think there are some bug in the cleanup phase of Event. Part of
> the problem is that perl's global destruction phase is somewhat
> unpredictable. This is a known bug in perl. I'm not sure if Event can
> work around this bug, so I haven't tried very hard to fix it. Is it
> really important? I figured it was only important if you were embedding
> perl in another application.
Because it occurs when a program shuts finally down and does not influence a
programs behaviour, I think it is not that essential (for a standalone application,
as you expressed). Users might be confused but could be warned in the applications
documentation.
In a long term view, it would be better to get this fixed of course, but if a fix of
perl itself is a precondition, we have probably to wait for it. I cannot estimate
deep perl internals. Perhaps version 5.6 will fix this destruction bug?
Jochen
