On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:39:58 +0000, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 07:27:35AM -0700, Darin McBride wrote: > > > The existing API isn't changed, but my answer to that is that AE is both more > > modern (not sufficient by itself) and more generic. The point of AE seems to be > > to support any event model you might need, including Tk. > > And more portable? > > Or less portable? > > Given the author in question, and his preferences for how he spends his time > and where the cost/benefit of work arounds tips, I know which I'm going to > bet on. > > > ie I'd love to see AnyEvent as an option, even the default. But I don't feel > comfortable with making it a hard dependency, and removing the option to use > the existing Tk code. You are so capable of writing my opinion way better that I would have been able myself :) -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.14 and porting perl5.15.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.4 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/