[Pan-users] Re: Bug: Using external editor stops background task.

[Duncan]

Greg Lee <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:39:01
+0000:

> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:12:20 -0400, Douglas Bollinger wrote:
> 
>> Can you post a bug on this?
> 
> Okay, it's #465763.  I added my opinion that it could be regarded as
> documented behavior, if there were a document, and if it were described
> in that document.

Documented or not, it'd still be undesired.  New-pan's core is single-
threaded as that tremendously simplifies debugging and eliminates race 
conditions, but it does spawn threads where that's necessary.  This may 
be made non-blocking without making it threaded, but if not, the external 
editor launcher should be spun off into a separate thread, so it doesn't 
stall ongoing downloads, for instance.  For binaries, the network is the 
bottleneck, and it's simply illogical to make it all the more so by 
pausing it unnecessarily.

(I don't have time ATM but I'm saving the post with the bug number to 
comment to the above effect, later.)

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