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Re: A common event loop

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From:
Peter Scott
Date:
September 19, 2000 12:42
Subject:
Re: A common event loop
Message ID:
4.3.2.7.2.20000919124158.00affac0@psdt.com
At 03:40 AM 9/19/00 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>As I understand it, there is currently no agreed upon common event
>loop architecture in Perl.  This means that if two event-based modules
>are used together (say, Net::IRC and POE) the one who's main loop
>starts up first will win.
>
>So the question I put to you all is, would it make sense for Perl to
>have a common event loop from which all other modules can then draw,
>thus avoiding the current state of conflict?

Absolutely.

The architecture of Tk applications will change considerably, for the better.

--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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