Re: [e-users] Announcement - Support for Evas to load XCF, XCF.GZ and PDF files

2011-05-14 Thread Wido
>> General Users = safety, if any of these loaders crash or hung, the main >> program/process will not crash. > > actually... hanging can be a problem as evas opens a pipe and waits on blocking > input. it has no timeout, so if it hangs, evas using process will too. you can > just kill the external

Re: [e-users] Announcement - Support for Evas to load XCF, XCF.GZ and PDF files

2011-05-14 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
This is not a design issue but just implementation detail. It can be added later without problems Also we should have preload to minimize the performance problem. On May 14, 2011 9:09 PM, "Wido" wrote: >> General Users = safety, if any of these loaders crash or hung, the main >> program/process

Re: [e-users] Announcement - Support for Evas to load XCF, XCF.GZ and PDF files

2011-05-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 14 May 2011 21:09:25 -0300 Wido said: > >> General Users = safety, if any of these loaders crash or hung, the main > >> program/process will not crash. > > > > actually... hanging can be a problem as evas opens a pipe and waits on > blocking > > input. it has no timeout, so if it hangs, e

Re: [e-users] Announcement - Support for Evas to load XCF, XCF.GZ and PDF files

2011-05-14 Thread Wido
Ok, I haven't undestood much (sorry, I'm not a dev). But you guys seem to know what you are doing (duh!) anyway, thanks for your answers =D 2011/5/14 Carsten Haitzler > On Sat, 14 May 2011 21:09:25 -0300 Wido said: > > > >> General Users = safety, if any of these loaders crash or hung, the > m