From: Travis <tra...@co...> - 2011-07-17 16:41:54
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On 7/17/2011 9:12 AM, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2011.07.17 09:17, Peter Stuge wrote: >> > I think Pete misunderstood what I meant by that sentence, and soared >> > off into long reasoning based on that. > From what I am reading below, I don't think I do. > >> > I wrote that most of the issues are well understood. > How can you tell? Especially, as far as I am concerned, I am not sure > that I understand that well how we're going to proceed on Windows wrt > poll abstraction. The "issue" that we need something else than poll on > Windows that leverages native Windows async mechanisms, such as events, > is of course not hard to grasp (and not something that needs months to > agree on), so I have to assume that your well understood issues applies > to the problems that we expect to encounter during the implementation. > Are you therefore telling me that I'm supposed to have good grasp of the > issues I'm going to be faced with when I implement poll abstraction on > Windows? Right now, I most certainly don't. Not to put more words in peoples mouths but it seems you are both saying the same thing. ;) I think figuring what these API potos will need to look like and the flow as-to how they will be called is the hard part. After this is figured, Writing the actual windows source code is probably not a big deal. Are you not both essentially saying this? Regards, Travis |