Re: [Freecol-developers] 0.12.0 Release Mirrored on Github

2022-05-01 Thread Stian Grenborgen
> [Caleb:] > I've posted an official release on GitHub for 0.12.0. Can someone with admin > access > there upload the installers to the release? My internet here is so slow that > it wouldn't get > done for hours if I tried. I think we should keep the official releases on SourceForge.net, and on

[Freecol-developers] Connection.request/askMessage

2022-05-01 Thread Stian Grenborgen
Hi, I'm wondering why we are using Connection.request instead of just Connection.sendMessage. The point of having Connection.askMessage is connecting the reply to the answer ... so that the calling thread can be blocked until the answer has been received. It's for making an asynchronous proces

Re: [Freecol-developers] Connection.request/askMessage

2022-05-01 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Sun, 1 May 2022 09:33:19 + Stian Grenborgen wrote: > I'm wondering why we are using Connection.request instead of just > Connection.sendMessage. Almost certainly its historic. When the DOM-removal was happening we went to really conservative messaging (e.g. overuse of askMessage), which