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On Tue Jan 31 03:03:45 2012, leonerd@leonerd.org.uk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:23:43PM -0500, Rocco Caputo wrote:
> > That's a very sane idea. It nicely sidesteps some maintenance
> > pitfalls, like having to explicitly list supported libraries and
> > optional dependencies.
>
> +1
>
> > > my $ae_cb = sub {
> > > my $cv = AE::cv;
> > > AE::io($_[0]->in, 0, sub { $cv->send });
> > > $cv->recv;
> > > };
> > > Term::ReadLine->new(..., read_callback => $ae_cb);
>
> > That's kind of a weird and AE-specific way to do that callback. A
> > more portable API would have two methods: One to access the library's
> > file handle, and another to be called when that handle is ready to be
> > read.
>
> Yeah, I'd go with this. It's e.g. the same API that libtermkey uses to
> integrate with async. event loops:
>
>
> int termkey_get_fd(TermKey *tk);
>
> /* call this when read() might succeed */
> TermKeyResult termkey_advisereadable(TermKey *tk);
>
>
> Also I'd observe that if myself and Rocco agree on something
> async/eventy, it's likely a good consensus position :)
OK, then let me repeat my two questions: Does anyone want to write a
patch for that? Should I revert Darin McBrideâs patch (b60dd40238)?
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